Elizabeth Kirkpatrick-Vrenios' award-winning chapbook, Special Delivery, was published in 2016. Nominated for a Pushcart three times, she has poems published in numerous anthologies and journals, is Professor Emerita from American University and has spent much of her life as a singing artist. Her latest chapbook  is Empty the Ocean with a Thimble, published in 2021 by Word Tech Communications. Her third book Concerto for an Empty Frame will come out in October from Kelsay Books.