Stacey Balkun is the author of Sweetbitter & co-editor of Fiolet & Wing. Winner of the New South Writing Contest, her creative and critical work has appeared in Best New Poets, Mississippi Review, Pleiades, and several other anthologies and journals. Stacey holds a PhD from the University of Mississippi, Oxford and an MFA from Fresno State. She teaches online at The Poetry Barn and the University of New Orleans.