Eileen Cleary's Wild Pack of the Living is not simply a retelling of Steven Stayner's abduction at the age of 7; rather, the poems of this volume are haunting and intimate visitations of his experience conducted by means of startling arrangements of lyric and image. Subject matter one might initially read as fodder for tabloid tales is transmuted into the profound knowledge of the scope of the loss and its terrifying repercussions. I am both heartbroken by these poems and astonished by their writer's enviable skill.
- Cate Marvin, author of Event Horizon

Eileen Cleary is the author of 'Child ward of the Commonwealth' (2019), and ' 2 a.m. with Keats' (Nixes Mate, 2021). In addition, she co-edited the anthology ' Voices Amidst the Virus', the featured text at the 2021 Michigan State University Filmetry Festival and founded and is EIC of Lily Poetry review Books and "Lily Poetry Review." Recent work is included in "Tree Lines: 21st Century American Poetry" just out through Grayson Books.