Dede Cummings’ poetry has been published in Mademoiselle, The Lake, InQuire, Vending Machine Press, Kentucky Review and Connotation Press. She was a Discover/The Nation poetry semi-finalist. She started her publishing career at Little, Brown after graduating from Middlebury College where she was the recipient of the Mary Dunning Thwing Award for poetry, and in 1991 studied with Hayden Carruth at the Bennington Writers’ Workshop. In 2013, she was a poetry contributor at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and is currently at work on her first poetry collection entitled “The Book of Days/Poems.†She lives in West Brattleboro, Vermont with her family where she runs a home office for the publishing company Green Writers Press.