CHERA HAMMONS holds an MFA from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont and serves as writer-in-residence at West Texas A&M University. The author of four books of poetry, including Maps of Injury and the 2017 Southwest Book Award winner The Traveler’s Guide to Bomb City, she lives near Amarillo, Texas, with her husband, three cats, one dog, one rabbit, one donkey, and five horses.