Lori Jakiela is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg, USA. From 1994-2001 she was an international flight attendant for a major US airline. Her publications include Miss New York Has Everything (2006), Spot the Terrorist: Poems (2012), and Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe (2016). Her writing has also appeared in Pittsburgh Magazine, Pittsburgh Quarterly, the Modern Love column in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Belt Magazine, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and other outlets.