Kindra McDonald is the author of the chapbooks Concealed Weapons, (2015) and Elements and Briars, (2016) and the full-length poetry collections, Fossils published by Finishing Line Press and In the Meat Years by Aldrich Press, both in 2019. She received her MFA from Queens University of Charlotte. She teaches poetry classes at The Muse Writers Center in Norfolk, VA and is an adjunct writing professor. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and for Bettering American Poetry. She lives in the city of mermaids with her husband and cats where she bakes, hikes, and changes hobbies monthly.