Adriana Cloud's poems have appeared in Armchair/Shotgun, The Nervous Breakdown, Metazen, the New Orleans Review, and others. She's read Harry Potter in three languages. You can find her on Twitter at @adicloud.
I could not bring myself to talk about losing my last living grandparent, because talking about her would mean talking about the literal and figurative ocean between where I come from and where I am now.