Becka Mara McKay directs the Creative Writing MFA at Florida Atlantic University. Publications include a chapbook of prose poems, Happiness Is the New Bedtime (Slash Pine Press, 2016); a book of poetry, A Meteorologist in the Promised Land (Shearsman Books, 2010); and several translations of fiction and poetry from Modern Hebrew. Her work can be found in recent or forthcoming issues of Bennington Review, Colorado Review, Copper Nickel, Ghost Town, Interim, Ninth Letter, The Ocean State Review, Post Road, and River Styx.