Sonya Lara served as the Associate Fiction Editor for The Madison Review at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she received her BA in English-Creative Writing. Currently, she is the Co-Founder, Poetry Editor, and Co-Social Media Manager for Rare Byrd Review, a literary magazine for middle school and high school students, and an MFA poetry candidate at Virginia Tech. Her work has appeared in Prairie Voices and Wisconsin’s Best Emerging Poets: An Anthology.