Becka Mara McKay directs the MFA in Creative Writing at Florida Atlantic University, where she also serves as faculty advisor to Swamp Ape Review. Publications includes two book of poems, THE LITTLE BOOK OF NO CONSOLATION (Barrow Street Press, 2021) and A METEOROLOGIST IN THE PROMISED LAND (Shearsman Books, 2010); and a chapbook of prose poems, Happiness Is the New Bedtime. She has translated the work of Shimon Adaf, Alex Epstein, Suzane Adam, and others from Modern Hebrew.