Rage Hezekiah is a Cave Canem, Ragdale, and MacDowell fellow who earned her MFA from Emerson College. Her recent collection Yearn (2022) was a Diode Editions Book Contest winner and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, the Vermont Book Award, and the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. Hezekiah is the author of Unslakable (Paper Nautilus Press, 2019) and Stray Harbor (Finishing Line Press, 2019) and serves as interviews editor at The Common.