Elizabeth Dingmann Schneider is a writer and editor. She earned her MFA from Hamline University, and she also completed a one-year poetry fellowship with Commons Magazine. Her work has appeared in Commons Magazine, The Saint Paul Almanac, Mosaic, Sleet, the What Light Poetry Contest, and others. 

Blood is a tribute to generations, to family, to mothers and to the desire to become one. The poems are vivid and sensory, each page grounding the reader in a particular moment, the weight of it. These pages contain a powerful story of love, loss, longing, perseverance, and hope.