Paula Persoleo is a 2011 graduate of Stony Brook’s MFA program in Southampton, NY. Some of the poets she worked with include Julie Sheehan, Thomas Lux, and Michelle Whittaker. Her work has appeared in Gordon Square Review, Philadelphia Stories, Panoply, Into the Void, and SWWIM. She is an adjunct at the University of Delaware and lives in Wilmington with her husband.