On Grief: Emergency Room Visit for Chest Pain
Runner-up

​by Alecia Beymer

Ohio Writer

Alecia Beymer’s poems have been published in The Inflectionist Review, Pittsburgh Quarterly, Sugar House Review, and others. She was a finalist for the Marica and Jan Vilcek Prize for Poetry (2018) through Bellevue Literary Review. She was also a semi-finalist for the Francine Ringold Awards for New Writers (2020) through Nimrod Journal. She is currently an Assistant Professor - Educator in the English Department at the University of Cincinnati.