Georgia Ressmeyer

Georgia Ressmeyer, a New York native, has lived happily in Wisconsin since 1974, first as an attorney, now as a poet. She is the third-place winner of the 2017 Wisconsin People & Ideas Poetry Contest. A Pushcart Prize nominee in poetry and recent recipient of the Honorable Mention award in the Council for Wisconsin Writers' Lorine Niedecker poetry contest, Ressmeyer has published an award-winning poetry chapbook, (Today I Threw My Watch Away, Finishing Line Press, 2010), and a full-length poetry book (Waiting to Sail, Black River Press, 2014). Her new poetry collection, Home/Body, is due out in 2017 from Pebblebrook Press. She lives near Lake Michigan in Sheboygan.