Alexis Orgera is the author of Illuminatrix (Forklift, Ink.) and Dear Friends, the Birds were Wonderful! (Blue Hour Press). Poems have appeared in Bat City Review, DIAGRAM, Forklift Ohio, Fou, Gulf Coast, H_ngm_n, The Journal, jubilat, No Tell Motel, and storySouth, among others. She has won a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize and a jubilat/Juniper scholarship, and was a recent fellow at New College of Florida where she edits New CollAge.