Aumaine Rose Gruich is the Assistant Managing Editor of Ninth Letter. She has received support from the Chautauqua Writer’s Workshop and the Illinois Department of Dance’s Choreographic Platform. Her poems have been finalists in Ruminate Magazine’s Janet B. McCabe and Phoebe Journal’s Greg Grummer poetry contests. Other work is published or forthcoming in magazines such as AGNI, Pleiades, Court Green, Phoebe, and Hobart.