Callista Buchen is the author of LOOK LOOK LOOK (Black Lawrence Press, 2019) and the chapbooks Double- Mouthed (dancing girl press, 2016) and THE BLOODY PLANET (Black Lawrence Press, 2015). Her work appears in Harpur Palate, Puerto del Sol, Fourteen Hills, and many other journals, and she is the winner of DIAGRAM's essay contest. She teaches at Franklin College in Indiana, where she directs the visiting writers reading series and advises the student literary journal.