Parker McCoig is an MA student and teaching assistant in the English Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Before joining the master’s program, she completed a BA in English and BS in Mathematics and was an undergraduate research assistant in the Vogiatzis group. Her research interests are in modern and contemporary poetry, with specific interest in the work of T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Mina Loy, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. In her free time, she enjoys Go and trivia.