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Stella Beratlis grew up in a second-generation Greek-American family in Northern California. Her latest collection, Dust Bowl Venus, was published in May 2021 by Sixteen Rivers Press. She is also the author of Alkali Sink (2015, Sixteen Rivers Press). Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including Harbor Review, Penumbra, Song of the San Joaquin, In-Posse Review, and California Quarterly, as well as in the anthologies The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems from the San Francisco Bay Watershed (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2010) and California Fire and Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology (Story Streets, 2020). She is coeditor of the collection More Than Soil, More Than Sky: The Modesto Poets (Quercus Review Press, 2011) and served as the poet laureate for the city of Modesto from 2016–2020. Beratlis lives in Modesto and is a librarian there.