Bonnie Jean Michalski received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona in 2006. She is the co-founder of MacawMacaw Press, which has published work by Elizabeth Robinson, Cathy Wagner, Barbara Henning, Sheila Murphy, and Dawn Pendergast, among others. Her chapbook, My Glass Terrace the Hinterland, was published by Uncaged Editions as part of the 3rd Dusie Kollektiv, and she has poems published in journals including Fairy Tale Review, Listenlight, and Apocryphaltext. She works as the Poetry Center’s editor.

Photograph by Barak Orbach