MELISSA DIAS-MANDOLY is a writer and artist living in Pittsburgh with her cat, Catrick Bateman. She designs books as a Production Editor at the University of Pittsburgh Press, and her work has been featured in the AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show. Her poetry has earned her a finalist title for the Noemi Press Book Award, the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship, the Submerging Writer Fellowship, and the Jake Adam York prize. You can keep up with her art on Instagram @bigmelslilart or her website mdiasmandoly.wordpress.com.