Katie Jean Shinkle is the author of four novellas and six chapbooks, most recently None of This is an Invitation (w/ Jessica Alexander, Astrophil Press, forthcoming) and Will You Kiss Me Goodnight?(The Offending Adam, 2021). Other work can be found in Flaunt Magazine, Washington Square Review, Denver Quarterly, Ninth Letter, Fugue, NELLE, and elsewhere. She is a 2021 poetry fellow at Lambda Literary Writer’s Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices, serves as co-poetry editor of DIAGRAM, and is an Assistant Professor at Sam Houston State University where she teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing, Editing, and Publishing program.