Caroline Wellman holds degrees in creative writing and American literature from the University of Arkansas.  Her recent work has won awards from After Hours Press and Anthology Magazine and

been nominated for Best of the Net. Her poetry chapbook Presences was published by Parallel Press in 2014. Formerly a college professor of English at schools in the Midwest and the South, she has recently taught introductory courses in creative writing and in journalism to local middle school students. She lives on ancestral lands of the Sac and Fox Indians in Illinois, near the Mississippi River, and she currently works for the US Postal Service. You can read more at https://www.carolinewellman.com.