H.K. Hummel is the author of Lessons in Breathing Underwater (Sundress Publications, 2020), and the co-author of Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2018). She is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, one of the founding editors of Blood Orange Review, and director of Atelier, a creative editing studio. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Southern Maine, and an MA in literature from Eastern Washington University. Her poems have recently appeared in Terrain.org, Hudson Review, Museum of Americana, Booth, and Iron Horse Review.