Rennie (Renata) Ament is the author of Full-Time Mammal, selected by Brenda Shaughnessy as the winner of the 2025 Iowa Poetry Prize and published by the University of Iowa Press in 2026, as well as Mechanical Bull, an Editor’s Choice selection published by Cleveland State University Poetry Center in 2023. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Denver Quarterly, Poetry Northwest, Poetry Daily, Annulet, Colorado Review, Washington Square Review, and West Branch. She has received fellowships and residencies from Millay Arts, the Community of Writers, the Saltonstall Foundation, the New York State Summer Writers Institute, the Center for Book Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center. She lives in Maine.