Jory Mickelson is a writer, educator, and retreat facilitator whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Atlanta Review, Sixth Finch, The Puritan, Hawaii Pacific Review, Mid-American Review, Diode Poetry Journal, The Rumpus, Ninth Letter, Vinyl Poetry, The Collagist, and other journals in the United States, Canada, and the UK. They are the recipient of an Academy of American Poet’s Prize and is a Lambda Literary Fellow in Poetry.