Katrenia Grace Busch is a freelance journalist, poet, and author. She has worked for CBS affiliate TV stations, NPR radio and local newspapers. She holds an associate degree in applied arts for journalism as well as a technical writing certification. She is working towards completing a B.A. in Rhetoric and Professional Writing from SVSU. Her award-winning poem, “Mystery and Wind,” took 2nd place in the 2022 League for Innovation Creative Writing Contest, and her work can be found in 50 Give or Take, Red Penguin Books, Bloom Magazine, The Chamber Magazine, and The Trouvaille Review (among other publications).

She was nominated to a 4-year term by the U.S. Department of Justice as a federal grant reviewer and has served over three years on the APA’s Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice editorial board. She is the author of several forthcoming chapbooks in poetry; specifically, Mystery and Wind is set to appear in 2024 through Written Tales. (This Cardinal Book and The Majestic Moon will also appear in 2024.)

She also serves as a Web of Science mentor for researchers and has been a social media manager/admin for Facebook Poetry Society since 2021 (where she helps publishers and poets at various levels and stages of their work). She also mentors in poetry and has been interviewed for and appeared on Quintessential Listening as a guest in 2023.

You can email her at poetryeditor@thebookendsreview.com.