HOLLIE HARDY is a poet, educator, and award-winning author of Lions Like Us (Red Light Lit Press 2024) and How to Take a Bullet, And Other Survival Poems (Punk Hostage Press 2014). She holds an MFA in Poetry from SFSU and teaches private poetry workshops online and in person. She is the founder of Praxis Poetry: Weekly Prompts for Poets and hosts the long-running monthly reading series Saturday Night Special, a Virtual Open Mic. Publications include The Common, Fourteen Hills, Colossus, Eleven Eleven, Passionfruit Review, MiGoZine, sPARKLE & bLink, Parthenon West Review, and other journals. She lives in Austin, TX. Find out more at holliehardy.com