Lacy M. Johnson has a PhD from the University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program. Lacy has taught writing for over a decade in a wide range of classroom situations—from graduate students at top-tier research institutions to women recovering from substance abuse; from teenagers in their first year of college to bilingual second-graders in Houston’s East End. Her creative and critical work has appeared or is forthcoming in Sentence, TriQuarterly Online, Nimrod, Memoir (and), Gulf Coast, Pebble Lake Review, and Irish Studies Review. Her first book of nonfiction, Trespasses: A Memoir, about class, race, and gender in the rural Midwest, is forthcoming from University of Iowa Press.