Matthew E. Henry is the author of Teaching While Black (Main Street Rag, 2020) and editor-in-chief of The Weight Journal. His recent writing can be found in The Baltimore Review, Frontier Poetry, Massachusetts Review, The New Verse News, Ninth Letter, Poemeleon, Porcupine Literary, Rejection Letters, and Solstice. Henry is an educator who received his MFA from Seattle Pacific University, yet continued to spend money he didn’t have completing an MA in theology and a PhD in education.