Kelly R. Samuels is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. She is the author of the chapbooks Words Some of Us Rarely Use (Unsolicited Press, 2019) and Zeena / Zenobia Speaks (Finishing Line Press, 2019). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous journals including Salt Hill, The Carolina Quarterly, Sweet Tree Review, Cold Mountain Review, and RHINO. She lives in the upper Midwest.