Alexa Poteet is a poet from Washington, DC, with a master’s degree in poetry from Johns Hopkins University and an undergraduate English degree from the University of Notre Dame. Her poetry has appeared in Reed Magazine, PennUnion, Sixfold, Lines + Stars, and NewVerseNews, among others. She was a semifinalist for SUNY’s 2015 Paumanok Poetry Award and a 2012 Pushcart Prize nominee. Formerly, she served as poetry editor for JMWW. Her first collection, Carnivores, was published by Lines + Stars Press in 2018.