Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis is the author of Intaglio (Kent State University Press, 2006), which won winner the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, and The Rub, awarded the Elixir Press Editors' Prize and published in 2014. A chapbook, By Some Miracle, a Year Lousy with Miracles, in collaboration with Cynthia Arrieu-King won the Dreamhorse Prize. She teaches at Columbus College of Art and Design where she is the faculty advisor for Botticelli Literary/Art Magazine.