Alexis Rhone Fancher is the author of How I Lost My Virginity To Michael Cohen and other heart stab poems, and State of Grace: The Joshua Elegies. She’s published in Best American Poetry 2016, Rattle, Slipstream, Chiron Review, Mead, The MacGuffin, Menacing Hedge, Quaint, Hobart, Fjords Review, H_NGM_N, and elsewhere. Nominated for seven Pushcart Prizes and four Best of The Net awards, Alexis is poetry editor of Cultural Weekly.