Alina Borger writes and teaches in Iowa City, IA. She is the author of Tuesday’s Children, a chapbook from Hermeneutic Chaos Press, and her work recently appeared or is scheduled to appear in Midwestern Gothic, The Mom Egg Review, and The Pittsburgh Poetry Review. Her poem “The Brass Tacks” won the Emerge Literary Journal annual contest in 2015, and her poem “A Sex Education in Five Objects” is forthcoming in the Hysteria Anthology from Lucky Bastard Press.