Annalisa Hansford (they/them) is the author of Romanticization of Grief and Ghosts (Bottlecap Press, 2025) and Banana Pancakes (Rockwood Press, 2026). Their poetry has received honors from the Academy of American Poets and the Boston Mayor’s Poetry Program. They’ve studied poetry with Gabrielle Calvocoressi and Victoria Chang. They previously interned at the Grolier Poetry Bookshop in Cambridge, where one of their favorite poets, Frank O’Hara, used to frequent.