Ava C. Cipri is a poetry editor for The Deaf Poets Society: An Online Journal of Disability Literature & Art, and teaches writing at Duquesne University. She holds an MFA from Syracuse University. A Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, her first chapbook, Queen of Swords, was published by dancing girl press (2018). Her second chapbook, Leaving The Burdened Ground, is forthcoming through Stranded Oak Press (Spring 2018). She resides at: www.avaccipri.com and tweets at @AvaCCipri