Nora E. Derrington is a lecturer in English at Washburn University, where she teaches composition, creative writing, literature, and film. Their work has appeared in Hobart, North Dakota Quarterly, The Future Fire, the anthology Poems for the Queer Revolution, and elsewhere, and she reviews fantasy, horror, romance, and science fiction titles for Publishers Weekly. They live with their wife—the writer Izzy Wasserstein—and a collection of companion animals who insist on using her as a pillow.