Elinor Ann Walker's poems have been featured on Verse Daily, in several anthologies, and appear or are forthcoming in AGNI, American Poetry Journal, Bayou Magazine, Bear Review, Nimrod International Journal, Plant-Human Quarterly, Plume, Poet Lore, Quarterly West, The Southern Review, Terrain, and elsewhere. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, lives in the Appalachian foothills, and is on the poetry staff at River Heron Review. Winner of the 2024 Sheila-Na-Gig Editions First Chap Prize, Fugitive but Gorgeous is her first book. Give Sorrow (Whittle Micro-Press) is forthcoming. Find her online: https: //elinorannwalker.com.