Poet and critic Austin Segrest is the author of Door to Remain (UNT Press, 2022), winner of the 2021 Vassar Miller Poetry Prize. His poems can be found in Poetry, The Common, Ecotone, The Threepenny Review, and many others. He was a 2018-19 poetry fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Born and raised in Alabama, Austin teaches at Lawrence University in Wisconsin.

This poem was originally published in Five Points Journal

Laura Paul Watson lives and writes in Pine, Colorado. She is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Florida. She recently was shortlisted for the 2021 Manchester Poetry Prize, and her work appears in Agni, Boulevard, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere.

Kelly R. Samuels is the author of the full-length collection All the
Time in the World and two chapbooks: Words Some of Us Rarely Use and Zeena/Zenobia Speaks.

She is also a Pushcart Prize nominee. Her work has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Court Green and RHINO. She lives in the Upper Midwest