Mary Ann Honaker from Beaver, West Virginia holds an MFA in creative writing from Lesley University and is the author of It Will Happen Like This (YesNo Press, 2015) and Becoming Persephone (Third Lung Press, 2019). Her work has appeared in Calamus Journal, Drunk Monkeys, Euphony, Juked, Little Patuxent Review, Off the Coast, Rattle.com, Van Gogh’s Ear, Quiet Diamonds, and elsewhere. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.Gwen and the Big Nothing, 2020.