Hilda Weiss is the co-founder and curator for www.Poetry.LA, a website featuring videos of poets and poetry venues in Southern California. Her chapbook, Optimism About Trees, was nominated for a Pushcart prize in 2011. Her poems have been published in Askew, Poemeleon, Rattle, Levure Littéraire and other journals. Her work is included in three recent anthologies: Alternate Lanes; Wide Awake; and Coiled Serpent. A fourth generation Californian, she lives, writes and grows her own vegetables in Santa Monica.