Emily Catherine Parzybok is an essayist, satirist and poet from Seattle, Washington. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, The Seventh Wave, Cleaver, The Satirist, The Syndrome Mag, Points in Case, and the anthology Uncertain Girls, Uncertain Times, a collection of inspiration and encouragement for young women. Emily is a Book Review Editor for Cleaver. A 2022 Jack Straw Fellow, she is currently an MFA candidate in creative writing at Columbia University School of the Arts. Photo by Troy Osaki.