Mackenzie Carignan (she/her/hers) is a poet, mother, and learning and leadership strategist. Her full-length book of poems, a house without a roof is open to the stars, is available from Black Radish Books, and her numerous chapbooks include her most recent, someone somewhere is running, from Dancing Girl Press. She has a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from University of Illinois at Chicago, and her poems have appeared in journals including Hayden’s Ferry Review, Another Chicago Magazine, The Columbia Review, Ping Pong, Newfound, moria, and others.