Darlene Pagán is the author of Blue Ghosts (2011) and Setting the Fires (2015). She has published essays and poems in journals such as Literal Latté, Field Magazine, CALYX, and Hiram Poetry Review. She teaches writing and literature at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, and is currently working on a memoir titled The Safest Place to Fall, a middle-grade fantasy, and always, poetry. For more, visit darlenepagan.com.