Gail Rudd Entrekin is Poetry Editor of Hip Pocket Press and Editor of the online environmental literary magazine, Canary (www.canarylitmag.org).She edited the poetry anthologies Yuba Flows and Sierra Songs & Descants: Poetry & Prose of the Sierra.
Her poems were finalists for the Pablo Neruda Prize from Nimrod International Journal and won the Western States Award from Persimmon Tree and the Women’s National Book Association Award, were first runner-up for the Steve Kowit Poetry Prize and finalist for the Frontier Open Prize. In 2020 her manuscript, Love in a Dark Time, was a finalist for both the Blue Light Prize and the Richard Snyder Prize from Ashland Poetry Press.
Entrekin taught poetry and English literature at California colleges for 25 years and her five books of poetry include The Art of Healing (with Charles Entrekin); Rearrangement of the Invisible; and Change (Will Do You Good), which was nominated for a Northern California Book Award.