Poet and essayist Joanna Penn Cooper is the author of The Itinerant Girl's Guide to Self-Hypnosis (Brooklyn Arts Press) and What Is a Domicile (Noctuary Press). Joanna holds a PhD in English from Temple University and has taught at Marquette University and Fordham University. Her work has appeared in The Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, South Dakota Review, Zocálo Public Square, Open Letters Monthly, Poetry International, and other journals. Joanna teaches online workshops in flash memoir and lyric essay for Creative Nonfiction. A new chapbook, When We Were Fearsome, is out this month from the Ethel Zine. (www.joannapenncooper.net)

Music credits: Beautocracy by Podington Bear; Conviction by Little Glass Men