Desiree Remick is a creative writing student at Southern Oregon University and the fiction editor of Nude Bruce Review. In her life before college, she taught fencing, picked cones for the forest service, and worked with a partner to translate poetry from Japanese to English. Her writing has won awards, most recently Bacopa Literary Review’s Free Verse Poetry Award, and has appeared or is forthcoming in Gravity of the Thing, Thirteen Bridges, Westchester Review, and other places.