Chera Hammons is the Writer-in-Residence at West Texas A&M University. She received her MFA from Goddard College. Her work has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Foundry, Rattle, Ruminate, Tar River, THRUSH, Tupelo Quarterly, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Her chapbook Amaranthine Hour received the 2012 Jacar Press Chapbook Award. She has published two full-length poetry books — Recycled Explosions and The Traveler's Guide to Bomb City (winner of the 2017 PEN Southwest Book Award) — with a third forthcoming from Sundress Publications. She lives in Amarillo, TX, and serves on the editorial board of poetry journal One.