Poetry Night with Carol Sadtler and Marcia J. Pradzinski

Carol Sadtler, born in Rockford, Illinois, earned a B.A. in English at Knox College and an M.A. in Comparative Literature at the University of Maine. She began to write poetry while she worked as a magazine editor and marketing communications writer fororganizations in the Midwest and Eastern U.S. She served as an assistant editor at RHINO and is a member of Plum Line Poets. Her poems and poetry book reviews appear in River Heron Review,One Art, Sky Island Journal, Big City Lit, The Inflectionist, Rise Up, The Humanist, Pacific Review, RHINO and other publications. Her chapbook, Joyful Annotations to the World Outside, was published in late 2025. She lives in Chicago with her family.

Marcia J. Pradzinski writes poetry, memoir, and fiction. She’s published two books of poetry: Left Behind (Finishing Line Press 2015) and As One Day Slips Out of the Shoe of Another (Kelsay Books 2021). She’s working on a memoir about raising a child with a disability, and haspublications on that topic in Kaleidoscope, Harmony and other journals. She lives in Skokie, Illinois and enjoys watching for cardinals and woodpeckers in the neighborhood.