Moriah Hampton holds a PhD in Modernist Literature from SUNY-Buffalo. Her fiction, poetry, and photography have appeared or are forthcoming in The Coachella Review, Typehouse Literary Magazine, Ponder Review, Gargoyle Magazine, Hamilton Stone Review, Poetry South, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships through Soaring Gardens Artists Retreat, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and SUNY-Albany Initiatives for Women. She currently teaches in the Writing and Critical Inquiry Program at SUNY-Albany and is a contributing writer at the NY State Writers Institute. Originally from the southeast, she is of Scottish and English descent and a Cherokee Nation citizen since 2024. Photo by Dakota Gilbert.