Megan Marie Sullivan graduated from Northwestern University with an MA in Creative Writing in 2012. She lives in Chicago and trains robots for a living. Sullivan has an undergraduate degree in music, which is surprisingly useful in the business world. She enjoys dramatic political podcasts, madrigals, gym nerds, tahini rolls, mean cats, little free libraries, urban churches, sea shanties, five-string bass guitars, the artwork of Catherine Forster, potty jokes, Japanese seals, medieval fantasy role-playing games, regional specialities, docker files, young adult fantasy novels, Chiberia days, wood burning stoves, video essays, chinaware with disputed origins, and humorous portrayals of existential dread. Artwork by P. M. Chatelain.