Originally published April 2018

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Emily O’Neill teaches writing and tends bar in Boston, MA. Her debut poetry collection, Pelican, is the inaugural winner of YesYes Books’ Pamet River Prize for women and nonbinary writers and the winner of the 2016 Devil's Kitchen Reading Series. Her second collection, a falling knife has no handle, is forthcoming from YesYes in the fall of 2018. She is the author of three chapbooks and her recent work has appeared in Cutbank, Entropy, Hypertrophic Literary, Jellyfish, and Redivider. MORE: Twitter | Websitehttps://twitter.com/tabernacleteethhttp://emily-oneill.comshapeimage_1_link_0shapeimage_1_link_1
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