Signe E. Land earned an MFA in Writing from the University of Minnesota and a JD from William Mitchell College of Law, graduating class valedictorian. Ms. Land taught creative writing at St. Olaf College and at the University of Minnesota and practiced law in Minneapolis. Now retired, Ms. Land lives in Minnesota and Arkansas, and her work has appeared in the William Mitchell Law Review, CatheXis Northwest Press,Manifest-Station,Bookends Review, Red Bridge Press’s Rivet: The Journal of Writing That Risks, and others. Ms. Land writes poetry and non-fiction, and is currently writing a memoir about the challenges she faced in work and life as an undiagnosed autistic woman. This year, Ms. Land won third place in the Willamette Writers Kay Snow Poetry Competition.