Corinna McClanahan Schroeder is the author of the poetry collection Inked, winner of the 2014 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize. She is the recipient of an AWP Intro Journals Award and a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and her poetry appears or is forthcoming in such journals as Blackbird, Gulf Coast, Poet Lore, RHINO, and The Southern Review. She lives and teaches in Los Angeles.