Melissa McKinstry holds an MFA from Pacific University. Her poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net and Pushcart Prizes and appears in journals including Beloit Poetry Journal, Rattle, Alaska Quarterly Review, december, Tahoma Literary Review, and Best New Poets 2023. She is a 2024 Djanikian Scholar and has work forthcoming at The Adroit Journal. Visit MelissaMcKinstry.com.