Rennie (Renata) Ament is the author of Full-Time Mammal, selected by Brenda Shaughnessy as the winner of the 2025 Iowa Poetry Prize and forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press in Spring 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 The Literary Review, Denver Quarterly, Poetry Northwest, Cleveland Review of Books, Colorado Review, Washington Square Review, West Branch, and many other journals. She was the runner-up for the Erskine J. Poetry Prize from Smartish Pace, the winner of the Yellowwood Prize in Poetry from Yalobusha Review, and a finalist for the Anzaldúa Poetry Prize from Newfound. A nominee for both the Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets, 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.