Carolyn Zaikowski lives in Northampton, Massachusetts. Her fiction and poetry, as well as her critical work on feminism, veganism, and trauma, has been published in NOO Journal, PANK, Monkey Puzzle, The West Wind Review, MONKEYBICYCLE, Nebula: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship, Get Fresh magazine, We Are Champion, esque, Leveler, Poets for Living Waters, and elsewhere. She holds a BA in Psychology and Women’s Studies from UMass Boston and an MFA in Creative Writing from Naropa University. She edits the online literary journal Dinosaur Bees.