Karyna McGlynn is the author of I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl (Sarabande Books, 2009), winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize, as well as two chapbooks. Her poems have recently appeared in The Literary Review, Court Green, Salt Hill, West Branch, Subtropics, and The Academy of American Poet’s Poem-A-Day. Karyna received her MFA from the University of Michigan, and is currently a PhD candidate in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Houston. She is the managing editor of Gulf Coast and coordinator for the Houston Indie Book Festival and the Gulf Coast Reading Series.