Lindsey Novak is a writer who followed the sun west from her native Missouri Ozarks to the dusty Arizona East Valley. She holds an MA in writing from Missouri State University and currently teaches composition at Mesa Community College and online for ASU's Writers' Studio. Her work appears in The Fourth River literary journal, The Rumpus, and is forthcoming in Angel City Review. Her debut chapbook, Echolalia, is forthcoming from dancing girl press.