Kelly Boyker lives in Seattle, Washington and wishes it really would rain every day, as the myth goes. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in such places as Opium Magazine, PANK, Prick-of-the-Spindle, Scythe, FRiGG, Wicked Alice and Apercus Quarterly as well as many other journals. One of her poems was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2012. She recently finished partaking in the collaborative anthology Fainting Couch Idioglossia from Blood Pudding Press. Her chapbook, Zoonosis, is forthcoming from Hyacinth Girl Press in 2013. She thanks you for reading her work.