Shelley Ettinger is the author of Vera’s Will. Her work has been or is forthcoming in Rawhead, Gaza Verse, Mizna, Foglifter, Beyond Queer Words, Gertrude, Rabble Review, Louisville Review, Pandemic Anthologies, The Skinny Poetry Journal, Radical Catalyst, Deceleration, Nimrod, Mississippi Review, Cream City Review, Stone Canoe, New Verse News, Allium, failbetter.com and other journals. She is a Lambda Literary Foundation Emerging Writers’ Retreat fellow and has been a queer anti-racist social-justice activist for over fifty years.