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Kathryne David Gargano (she/her) hails from the Pacific Northwest but isn’t very good at climbing trees. She received her MFA from the University of Nevada–Las Vegas and is currently pursuing a PhD in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Her work has been published in Pithead Chapel, the Colorado Review, Synaesthesia, and others. She is the winner of F(r)iction’s 2019 Summer Literary Contest in poetry, judged by Kay Ulanday Barrett, and her recent poem in Rust + Moth was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2019. You can find pictures of her three-legged pup on Instagram@peternelle3.