Tera Vale Ragan received her BA in Creative Writing from The University of Southern California where she received the Virginia Middleton Award and the Undergraduate Creative Writing Award for poetry. She received her MFA at San Francisco State where she was a poetry editor of Fourteen Hills and winner of the Mark Linenthal Award. She is currently a poetry editor for Rattapallax Magazine. Her poems have appeared in journals including Rattle, Transfer, Eclipse, Hot Metal Bridge, Barely South Review, 16th & Mission Review, Ekleksographia. She spends her summers writing in Prague, Czech Republic.