Arena Glow is a collection of poems swirling about the shin guards donned by women of the arena. The arena takes many forms: the rodeo arena, the cockpit of a small plane, the boys’ club of engineering, the confines of a murderous board game, the Colosseum in which women also desired to fight as gladiators, the traditional marriage.

Exploring themes of danger versus security, belonging and not, the limits of moxie, power that grows across time and experience, and coming out in mid-life and mid-marriage, the poems range in tone from unflinching grit to awed sweetness as they trace the trajectories and life spans of women born with a daredevil oblique.