JULIE PRICE PINKERTON lives in Champaign, Illinois and teaches creative writing at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her poems and essays have appeared in Rattle, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Literal Latte, Tamaqua, GSU Review, and were included in the 2014 anthology The Burden of Light: Poems on Illness and Loss. Julie is a two-time recipient of the UIUC Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Her poem “Veins” won the 2016 Rattle Poetry Prize. She enjoys binge watching Tiny House Hunters with her husband, Scott, and photographing the five foxes currently living in their backyard. www.juliepricepinkerton.com.