Cortney Daniels received an MFA in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop & has published in Intro, Carolina Quarterly, Mississippi Valley Review, Well-Versed, & others. Poems are forthcoming in a new edition of Well-Versed & Anti-Heroin Chic. Now retired, she dances, bikes, quilts, volunteers, travels, & writes poetry & non-fiction. She lives in Columbia, MO, with her spouse & two cats.