Stephanie McCarley Dugger’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Arts & Letters, Calyx, CUTTHROAT, Gulf Stream, Hartskill Review, Meridian, Naugatuck River Review, The Southeast Review, Still: The Journal, and Zone 3. She grew up on a farm near Muscle Shoals, AL, received an MFA from the University of Wyoming and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Tennessee, where she serves as poetry editor for Grist.