Michele Popadich is a graduate student at Northwestern University, working on her MFA in Creative Nonfiction with a focus on flash and experimental form. Her essays have appeared in Hippocampus Magazine, Talking Writing, Driftless and forthcoming in Lint Magazine September 2021. Her poetry has appeared in Heavy Feather Review, LOCUS, and Lost Balloon. When there isn’t a global pandemic, she tells stories in live lit storytelling shows around Chicago. She lives in Chicago and works as a product manager and freelance editor.