Matina L. Stamatakis currently resides in upstate New York as a freelance photographer and writer. Some of her works have appeared or are forthcoming in Wheelhouse Magazine, Big Bridge, Free Verse, Word for/ Word, Sous Rature, Moria, and others. She is the author of Metempsychose (Ypolita Press, 2009) and the forthcoming chapbook Chasmotica (Oystercatcher Press).