Kathryne David Gargano (she/hers) hails from the Pacific Northwest, but isn't very good at climbing trees. She received her MFA from the University of Nevada - Las Vegas, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. Her work has been published in Rust Moth, Pithead Chapel, Phoebe, Colorado Review, and others. She won an AWP Intro Award in Poetry in 2020, and F(r)iction’s Summer Poetry Contest in 2019.