Kristina McDonald received her MFA from Eastern Washington University, where she served as the poetry editor of Willow Springs. She is the author of Stories I Tell My Godmother (Dancing Girl Press, 2015) and her poems have appeared in several journals including Narrative, New Guard Review, Slab, Sugar House Review, and Yemassee. She has worked for literary non-profits Writers in the Schools and Get Lit! Programs, and she currently works for Houston Methodist.