Dede Cummings is a poet, author, and publisher. She graduated from Middlebury College and received the Mary Dunning Thwing Poetry Award. Her poetry has been published in Mademoiselle, Connotation Press, MomEgg Review, Green Mountains Review, and others. In 2013, she was a poetry contributor at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and in 2016, she was the recipient of a writer’s grant from the Vermont Studio Center. Her first poetry collection, To Look Out From, won the 2016 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize. Her second poetry book, The Meeting Place, came out in 2020 from Salmon Poetry. Her nonfiction titles have been published by Hatherleigh Press and Skyhorse Publishing (New York). Dede is the founder and publisher of Green Writers Press in West Brattleboro, Vermont.