Winner of the 2020 Blue Light Book Award Claudine Nash's words once again tug at the very fabric of space and time. Her poems peel back layers in such a way that the reader can simultaneously witness the molten core of the earth and the innermost depths of the narrator's soul. The body of work contained in Beginner's Guide to Loss in the Multiverse expounds upon her own constant exploration into the unknown and provides us with the roadmap to follow her there. I hope you will join her on this cosmic journey, for it is one you're not likely to forget. Claudine Nash is a psychologist and award-winning poet whose collections include the full-length books The Wild Essential (Kelsay Books: Aldrich Press, 2017) and Parts per Trillion ( Kelsay Books: Aldrich Press, 2016) as well as the chapbooks Things for Which You Thirst ( Weasel Press, 2020) and The Problem with Loving Ghosts (Finishing Line Press, 2014). She also edited three poetry anthologies: Epiphanies and Late Realizations of Love (Transcendent Zero Press, 2019), Destigmatized (Madness Muse Press, 2017) and In So Many Words (Madness Muse Press, 2016). Her work has been nominated for the Pulitzer, Pushcart and Best of the Net Anthology Prizes and has earned numerous literary distinctions including prizes from such publications and artistic organizations as Artists Embassy International, Thirty West Publishing House, The Song Is..., and Eye on Life Magazine among others. Internationally published, her poetry has appeared in a wide range of magazines and anthologies.