Melissa Reeser Poulin is the author of Rupture, Light (Finishing Line Press 2019) and co-editor of the anthology Winged: New Writing on Bees (Poulin Publishing 2014), a community project benefiting pollinator conservation efforts. Her most recent poems and essays appear in Coffee + Crumbs, Entropy Magazine, Relief Journal, Ruminate Magazine, and Writers Resist. She lives in Portland, Oregon. More at melissareeserpoulin.com.