Maggie Graber is a queer poet from the Midwest and the author of Swan Hammer(MSU Press, 2022), winner of the 2021 Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize and a nominee for a 2023 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award. Her work has appeared in South Dakota Review, RHINO, The Louisville Review, Southern Indiana Review, Nashville Review, and elsewhere. She currently lives in Oxford, MS, where she is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Mississippi. She loves photosynthesis.