Michele Battiste is the author of Uprising (2014) and Ink for an Odd Cartography (2009), both published by Black Lawrence Press. She is also the author of five chapbooks, the most recent of which is Left: Letters to Strangers (Grey Book Press, 2014). She is proud to say that this is her second appearance in Memorious, and other poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Rattle, and Mid-American Review, among others. She lives in Colorado.