JENNIFER BROWN lives with her partner and a funny-looking dog in NC but is itching for the day when they hit the open road and land in Vermont, Alaska, and many points between. She has taught creative writing and literature in high schools, colleges, summer programs, and festivals and has held residencies at the Weymouth Center for the Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. In 2018, she won the Linda Flowers Literary Award from the NC Humanities Council. Her essays and poems have appeared in North Carolina Literary Review, Copper Nickel, and Cagibi, and are forthcoming in L.A. Review, Cimarron Review, and Cinncinnati Review. Her first poetry collection, “Natural Violence,” is forthcoming from Brick Road Poetry Press in 2021.