Lotte Mitchell Reford is usually a poet but is currently working on nonfiction about sickness, language learning, loneliness, and starving medieval saints. Lotte holds an ᴍꜰᴀ from Virginia Tech and currently live in Mexico City. Their writing has been published in—amongst other places—Copper Nickel, Spam, Poetry Bus, and Hobart Pulp. Their first pamphlet was published in 2021 by Broken Sleep Books. Lotte won Cʀᴀꜰᴛ’s 2023 nonfiction prize and was nominated for a Pushcart for the same.