Alexandra Mattraw is a fourth generation native of Northern California. She is also the author of WE FELL INTO WEATHER (The Cultural Society, 2020), SMALL SIREN (The Cultural Society, 2018), these threads a sound (Beard of Bees, 2013) and flood psalm (Dancing Girl Press, 2017). Her poems and reviews have appeared in American Letters and Commentary, Denver Quarterly, Eleven Eleven, The Poetry Project, VOLT, The Volta, and elsewhere. In Oakland, she curates an art centric writing and performance series called Lone Glen.