JANINE HARRISON, M.A., M.F.A., teaches creative and freelance writing, literature, and linguistics at Calumet College of St. Joseph (IN) and American Public University (online, based in WV) and is a freelance writer, a teaching artist, and a former Highland (IN) Poet Laureate (2017-18). She wrote Weight of Silence (Wordpool Press, 2019) and If We Were Birds (Moria Books, 2017). She is a former literary not-for-profit organization leader and has led, read, and spoken at literary events around the Midwest. Janine is also a poetry reader and reviewer for The Florida Review. She lives with her husband, fiction writer Michael Poore, and teen artist daughter, Jianna Sol.