The poems in Resurrected Body address the challenges of recovering personal identity (and joy) amid the cultural expectations of motherhood.

Elizabeth Cranford Garcia’s debut poetry collection, Resurrected Body, received Cider Press Review’s 2023 Editor’s Prize and addresses the challenges of recovering personal identity (and joy) amid the religious and cultural expectations of motherhood. Her work has received the Banyan Poetry Prize, the Byron Herbert Reece Prize from the Georgia Poetry Society, the Penumbra Poetry Prize, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Her work has appeared in journals such as Southern Humanities Review, Tar River Poetry, Image, RHINO, Chautauqua, Portland Review, CALYX, and Mom Egg Review, She holds degrees in Humanities and English from B.Y.U. and V.S.U., and is now a doctoral student at Georgia State. A Georgia native, she lives in Acworth with her husband and three kids.