Shamala Gallagher’s writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, The Missouri Review, West Branch, Waxwing, The Offing, Eleven Eleven, and elsewhere, and she is the author of a chapbook, I Learned the Language of Barbs and Sparks No One Spoke (dancing girl press, 2015). She has received fellowships from Kundiman, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center, and she holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers. She teaches at the University of Georgia, where she is pursuing a PhD in English and Creative Writing.