Nikki Paley Cox writes and teaches in Chicago. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and her poems have been published in Hanging Loose, Briar Cliff Review, Gertrude, Poetica, and others. Her plays have been featured in festivals with the Chicago Dramatists, the Writer’s Bloc, and the Fine Print Theatre Company. She has an MFA in Poetry from Emerson College, and she is currently at work on her first book of poems and a screenplay.