Carolyn Zaikowski is the author of the hybrid novels In a Dream, I Dance by Myself, and I Collapse (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016) and A Child Is Being Killed (Aqueous Books, 2013). Her fiction, poetry, and essays have been published in The Washington Post, Denver Quarterly, The Rumpus, Entropy Magazine, The Huffington Post, Everyday Feminism, Dusie, PANK and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and lives in Massachusetts.