A.K. Padovich is a writer and graduate student from Mesa, AZ, now residing in Fairfax, VA. She is a second-year poetry candidate in the creative writing graduate program, and English Composition teacher, at George Mason University. She obtained an undergraduate degree in the Arts from the University of Washington, with departmental honors; traveled parts of Europe and the Baltic region; wrote an extensive research thesis on a Stalinist-era Russian novel; and acted as a tutor and teacher of English and poetry in the Russian Federation, Seattle, Mesa, and currently in the George Mason Writing Center. Her work has been featured in Bricolage Literary and Arts Journal, Sanctuary: A Literary Anthology, and Mare Nostrum.