Rita A. Simmonds (https://ritaasimmonds.com/) is a three-time winner of the Best Original Poetry category at the annual Catholic Press Association Awards, as well as a winner of numerous second and third place CPA awards. She is a regular contributor to MAGNIFICAT, with 49 original poems appearing in the best-selling MAGNIFICAT Year of Mercy Companion. She has published four books of poetry: Souls and the City, Bitterness and Sweet Love, Greeting the Seasons and He Called, and a memoir: Convicted by Mercy: The Journey of Frank Simmonds from the Streets to Sanctity.

Rita lives in Rochester, New York, with her two teenage sons.

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