Leanna Petronella's poetry can be seen in Beloit Poetry Journal, CutBank, La Petite Zine, ElevenEleven, and other publications. Her nonfiction appears in Brevity. She holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas and is currently pursuing her PhD at the University of Missouri, where she is the Poetry Editor of The Missouri Review. This is her first fiction publication.