about the author

Staci R. Schoenfeld is an MFA candidate in poetry at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale and Managing Poetry Editor at Revolution House. Her poems appear in or are forthcoming from Appalachian Heritage, Still: The Journal, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Bellevue Literary Review, and diode poetry journal, among others. “The Deconstruction of Emily Dickinson” was inspired by the work of Swiss artist Ursus Wehrli.