Elizabeth L. Hodges is founding editor of St. Petersburg Review and Springhouse Journal. “Lillian Hellman” is part of her chapbook Blood Sonnets (Finishing Line Press, forthcoming), truncated sonnets detailing women in history, other poems from which have appeared in Matrix, Interim, and Taint Taint Taint, among others. Her book of poetry is Witchery (MadHat Press, 2016).