Lindsay Marianna Walker is a Ph.D. student in English at the University of Southern Mississippi. Winner of the 2009 Joan Johnson Award for Fiction, she has served as poetry editor for the literary journal, Juked, since 2005. Her poetry has appeared recently, or is forthcoming, in: West Branch, Gulf Stream, The Southern Poetry Anthology, The Southern Quarterly, The Jabberwock Review, and The Bare Root Review. She has also published fiction and plays. Her little sister, Katy, was born on Valentine’s day.