JUDITH SMALL is a poet, educator, and member of the Volunteer Interpreters' Panel of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area. Her writing has appeared in numerous magazines, including The New Yorker, FIELD, Epiphany, Feminist Studies, and New Letters. She has published one previous book, From the Island (Black Oyster), a mixed-genre memoir. Her prior awards include the CCLM Fels Award and two Pushcart Prize nominations. A finalist for the 2015 FIELD Poetry Prize, the 2015 Georgia Poetry Prize, and the 2016 Idaho Prize for Poetry, Second Tongue was the 2017 winner of the Brighthorse Prize in Poetry. Small is currently coordinating the after-school Peer Interpreters Program at Oakland's Castlemont High School, where bilingual students from immigrant families learn the fundamentals of interpreting as they support newcomer students and their families.