We are thrilled to welcome our newest copyeditor, Christina Olson, who will be joining us starting with issue #7!

Christina is the author of Before I Came Home Naked. Her poetry appears in Gulf Coast, Mid-American Review, Puerto del Sol, The Normal School, Anti-, Gastronomica, Passages North and Hayden’s Ferry Review, among other publications, and was selected by Gerald Stern as the winner of The Dirty Napkin’s Poetry Prize. Her creative nonfiction appears in Brevity, Black Warrior Review, Wake: Great Lakes Culture and Thought, and was anthologized in The Best Creative Nonfiction Volume 3.

Originally from Buffalo, New York, she received her MFA from Minnesota State University, Mankato. She was previously a visiting assistant professor of writing at Grand Valley State University in western Michigan, where she cursed the weather and co-founded the Cherry Bomb Reading Series. Now she resides in Georgia and teaches writing and technical communication at Georgia Southern University. She also lives online at www.thedrevlow-olsonshow.com.