Erin Pesut is a poet, essayist, and editor living in Brattleboro, Vermont. Her writing has appeared in Chautauqua, Whale Road Review, Cleaver Magazine, and Poetry South, and is forthcoming from Raft Magazine and Colorado Review. Her essay, “Groceries (The Longest Text I Receive All Week),” was a finalist in the inaugural CRAFT Creative Nonfiction Award. She received her MFA in Fiction from Columbia University where she was a School of the Arts Fiction Fellow and a B.A. in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College.