Rachael Shay Button hails from Metro-Detroit but currently lives in Holden Village–a remote community in the North Cascades of Washington–where she works as a Para educator for the village’s eleven student public school. Her work has appeared in The Collagist, Creative Nonfiction, Diagram, Redivider, KNOCK, Ozone Park, and Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment. She received her MFA in Creative Writing and Environment from Iowa State University. She contributes to The Nervous Breakdown, blogs at groundunderneathmyfeet.blogspot.com, and can be reached via e-mail at rachael.shay.button@gmail.com.