Mississippi native Jessica Kinnison‘s work has appeared in Juked, Fiction Southeast, and The Southern Humanities Review, among others. She was a Kenyon Review Peter Taylor Fellow in 2018. Her story “Bone on Bone” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2012. She serves as Director of Programs at Project Lazarus, a nonprofit transitional housing facility for people living with HIV/AIDS. She teaches creative writing in the New Orleans Writers Workshop and co-produces the Dogfish Reading Series in New Orleans.