Bevin O’Connor is a poet and educator from Southern California and received her MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is the winner of the Prairie Lights Donald Justice Poetry Contest, and her poem “Harvest Syntax” won the 2023 Michelle Boisseau Poetry Prize. Bevin has taught writing at the University of Iowa, the University of Southern California, and the University of Houston. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in Southern Indiana Review, Third Coast, Bear Review, Annulet, Palette Poetry, Afternoon Visitor, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Poetry at the University of Houston, where she is an Inprint Nina and Michael Zilkha Fellowship recipient and winner of the Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Poetry. Bevin serves as a poetry editor for Gulf Coast magazine.