Risa Denenberg lives on the Olympic peninsula in Washington state where she works as a nurse practitioner. She is a co-founder of Headmistress Press; curator at The Poetry Café Online; and the Reviews Editor at River Mouth Review. Her most recent publications include the poetry collection, slight faith (MoonPath Press, 2018), the chapbook, Posthuman, finalist in the Floating Bridge 2020 chapbook competition, and a new collection, Rain Dweller (MoonPath Press, 2023).

Other poems by Risa Denenberg in Verse Daily:
July 3, 2020:   "How Two Trees Become a Forest" "A teacher draws Chinese characters on the chalkboard to show..."
September 7, 2018:   "Ice Would Suffice" "How swift, how far..."

Books by Risa Denenberg:

Other poems on the web by Risa Denenberg:
"Enough Beauty in This World"
Three poems
"I Write in the House of Her Narrative"
"Still Life with Moving Parts"
"Survival: Trees, Tides, Song & Survival Part 2: Trees, Birds, Ocean, Bees"
"Neither Pause nor Gaze at What Is Passing"
"Abiding Winter"
"The Hours"
Nineteen poems
Five poems
"Before world"

Risa Denenberg's Website.

Risa Denenberg on Twitter.

About Rain/Dweller:

"I felt myself in the presence of a great honesty about things that matter, and in particular responded to the idea that, despite our existential plight—maybe even because of it—life is a thing of great beauty."
—David Guterson

"Denenberg's wry, straightforward, penetrating voice is rebuke, meditation, and celebration all at once, gnarly and braided as the beloved trees she offers prayers for."
—Corrie Williamson

"In this honest and unflinching collection, Denenberg gives us poems that look hard topics like extinction, climate change, aging, and loss and tempers them with tenderness, vulnerability, beauty, and delight—delight in the moon, the face of a pet, powdered snow on cedars."
—Rena Priest