Ava Winter is a Ph.D. student in Creative Writing specializing in poetry. They wrote the chapbook Safe House (Thrush Press, 2013), and their poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Baffler, Grist, Meridian, Muzzle, New Poetry From the Midwest, Ninth Letter, and Poetry International, among others. Ava received their M.F.A. from The Ohio State University, a 2016 Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council, and a 2016-18 Stadler Fellowship from Bucknell University.