Kelly R. Samuels is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. She is the author of Words Some of Us Rarely Use (Unsolicited, 2019) and Zeena/Zenobia Speaks (Finishing Line, 2019). Her poems have recently appeared in DMQ Review, The Pinch, Sou’Wester, Off the Coast, and SWWIM. She lives in the Upper Midwest.