Nadine Hitchiner is a German poet and author of Practising Ascending (Cathexis Northwest Press, 2023 ) and the chapbook Bruises, Birthmarks & Other Calamities (Cathexis Northwest Press, 2021). She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and a 2023 Best of the Net Finalist. Her work has appeared in San Pedro River Review, Prose Online, Milk Press and others.