Maura Modeya is a poet from rural Minnesota. Their work focuses on dykes with insomnia, the ghost of Sappho, U.S. empire violence, queer ecologies, and the reclamation of public space through wheatpasting. Their chapbooks include Only Interested in Everything (Meekling Press) and Sleepwalking (New American Press), selected by Angela Peñaredondo for a MAYDAY poetry prize. She holds an MFA from Naropa’s Jack Kerouac School and currently lives in Atlanta.

Cover image: The Nightmare, by Henry Fuseli (1781)