GABRIELLE BATES is a Southern poet living in Seattle, where she is an MFA candidate at the University of Washington and associate editor of The Seattle Review. She attended the 2014 Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets and has work published by Rattle, Southern Humanities Review, Broadsided, and Redactions. As the official voice of Broadsided Press on twitter and an Awesome Foundation grant recipient, she promotes public collaborations of poetry and visual art. She can be found online at http://gabbybates.wix.com/author or on twitter (@GabrielleBates).