Grace Cavalieri was Maryland's tenth Poet Laureate (2018-2024). She founded and still produces "The Poet and the Poem" for public radio and podcasts, from the Library of Congress, celebrating 48 years on-air in 2025. She's an Academy of American Poets Fellow, with more than 30 books and chapbooks, and 20 plays produced on American stages. In July 2023, twenty-five years of her podcasts were sent to the moon from NASA on the Lunar Codex. Her recent book, Owning the Not So Distant World, was published by Blue Light Press.