On January 21, 2016, Red Hen Press announced the winner and finalists for its 2015 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award.  Rita Banerjee’s poetry manuscript, “Echo in Four Beats,” was listed as a finalist for the 2015 Saltman Award.  Rita Banerjee is the Executive Creative Director of the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop, and her writing has been featured in Electric Literature, VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, Queen Mob’s Tea House, and Riot Grrrl Magazine.  She is author of the poetry collection, Cracklers at Night, and her novella, A Night with Kali, is forthcoming in 2016.  The contest was judged by Carl Phillips, and information about Red Hen Press and the 2015 winners and finalists can be found here.