Nicole Markert (she/her/hers) is a bi/queer poet who is a recipient of Eastern University’s the Thyra Ferre Bjorn Creative Writing Award. Her work has appeared in Hobart After Dark (HAD), Rust + Moth, Furrow, SWWIM Every Day, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, among others. She is currently a poetry reader for Split Lip Magazine and is pursuing an MFA in Poetry as well as an M.A in Publishing at Rosemont College. She currently resides in the Philadelphia area and is working on her first chapbook as well as her first full-length collection.