Nylah Lyman is a disabled poet. Her debut collection of poetry, Frail Union (Encircle Publications, 2021), draws on her experience of living with a chronic, invisible illness. Individual poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Bellevue Literary Review, the minnesota review, Hunger Mountain, the South Carolina Review, and other journals. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast program.