Dawn Tefft's poems appear in Fence, Denver Quarterly, Bennington Review, and Sentence; her nonfiction in Pleiades, PopMatters, Truthout, and Jacobin; and her fiction in The Account, which recently nominated the piece for a Pushcart Prize. Her chapbooks include Fist (Dancing Girl Press), The Walking Dead: A Lyric (Finishing Line Press), and Field Trip to My Mother and Other Exotic Locations (Mudlark). She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and works as the Executive Director of a higher ed union.