Alexis Orgera is the author of two poetry collections, How Like Foreign Objects and DUST JACKET (Coconut Books, 2013). Her writing has appeared in Bennington Review, Black Warrior Review, Carolina Quarterly, Chattahoochee Review, Conduit, Denver Quarterly, Green Mountains Review, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, the Rumpus, storySouth, Tarpaulin Sky, Third Coast, Vinyl, and elsewhere. She is an editor and cofounder of Penny Candy Books and Penelope Editions, an indie picture book press and young adult imprint that encourage big conversations. Orgera also makes art, wanders, and practices the art of growing plants for food, medicine, and connection.