Minadora Macheret received her PhD in Creative Writing from the University of North Texas where she specialized in poetry, with a secondary focus in Literature of the Shoah. Her research interests include: poetry, poetry of the Shoah, flash creative nonfiction, memoir, disability studies, and technical writing and communications. She is a poetry editor for The Boiler. Her work is forthcoming or has appeared in South Dakota Review, Brevity, Salamander, and elsewhere. She is the author of the chapbook, Love Me, Anyway (Porkbelly Press, 2018).