S.Marie Clay is a PhD fellow at Western Michigan University where she teaches creative writing and currently serves as the editor-in-chief of Black Tongue Review. She is the author of Strange Couple from the Land of Dot and Line (Orange Monkey Publishing, 2014) and her work has been featured in Phoebe, Eleven Eleven, Drunken Boat, Columbia Poetry Review, Best of Kore Press 2013, H_NGM_N, Forklift Ohio, Ghost Town Literary Magazine and others.