Evana Bodiker is a poet born and raised in the U.S. South. She is the author of Ephemera (Texas Review Press, 2018), winner of the Robert Phillips Chapbook Prize. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, where she received the Robert B. House Memorial Prize in Poetry, she now lives and writes in Boston, Massachusetts. Evana’s poetics are largely concerned with the body, gender, and illness, as she has cystic fibrosis, a chronic and genetic disease. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in: The Emerson Review, Oyez Review, LEVELER, Noble / Gas Qterly, and elsewhere. In the fall, she will begin her MFA candidacy at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.