EMILY A. BENTON’s poems have appeared in journals such as ZYZZYVA, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Harpur Palate, and Southern Poetry Review. She is a former editor for storySouth, The Greensboro Review, and the University of Hawai‘i Press. Raised in Tennessee and a graduate of the MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro, she lived and worked in Hawai‘i from 2012 to 2020. She now resides in Georgia.