Amy Bailey is pursuing an MFA at Miami University where she serves as Oxford Magazine's nonfiction editor and won the Jordan-Goodman Award in creative nonfiction. She received her BA from Kent State University in journalism and mass communication and spent many years in the south working in television news and magazine production before returning to Ohio. Her work has appeared most recently in Aquifer. Other pieces have appeared in PMS: Poem Memoir Story (now known as NELLE), Blotterature, Voicemail Poems, and Revolution House, among others. You can find her on Instagram @starving4words.