Zach Semel (he/him) is an M.F.A. candidate in Creative Writing at Northern Arizona University. Some of his previous poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in DIAGRAM, CutBank, Eclectica Magazine, The Nervous Breakdown, Wordgathering, Breath & Shadow, and other places. His debut chapbook "Let the tides take my body" was awarded the May Day Mountain Prize by Hunger Mountain. Find more of his work at https://zachsemel.wordpress.com.