Kristin Sanders is a writer, editor, and educator from Santa Maria, California. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Louisiana State University and a BA in English from Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo. She has taught English and Creative Writing for over ten years, most recently at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and Loyola University, New Orleans, and currently teaches online at Ashford University. She has served as book review editor for The Southern Review, poetry editor for the New Orleans Review, and contributing writer at Weird Sister.