Whitnee Thorp is from Lexington, KY but currently lives in Box Elder, SD, where she teaches on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation at Oglala Lakota College. She has her MFA in Creative Writing from the Bluegrass Writers Studio at Eastern Kentucky University. Some of her publications include PMS Poemmemoirstory, Veils, Halos, and Shackles, Pasque Petals, Poets Opposing Evil Trump, and Tom Hunley's Poetry Gymnasium. She has attended the Disquiet International Writing Residency in Lisbon, Portugal, Wellstone Writing Residency, KY Governor's School for the Arts, among other writing conferences and workshops. She recently won the South Dakota Poetry Society's annual chapbook contest with her chapbook, Cicurate. When Whitnee isn't writing, you can find her binge watching Netflix shows, drinking a Mountain Dew, or eating some Hot Cheetos.