C.R. Grimmer (they/them) is the author of The Lyme Letters: Poems (Winner of the Walt McDonald First Book Award), the chapbook O–(ezekiel's wife), and the peer-reviewed, OEA, multimedia book Poets as Public Scholars: Activist Poets in an Age of Social Media (forthcoming from the University of Michigan Press). Their poetry has been a finalist for Best New American Poets and their poems, installations, and essay writing appear in leading venues and journals, such as the Seattle Convention Center, Poetry Magazine, Prairie Schooner, FENCE Magazine, and The Comparatist. Learn more at crgrimmer.com.