Elizabeth Paul has an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and her work has appeared in Cold Mountain Review, Carolina Quarterly, Cider Press Review, and elsewhere. Her chapbook Reading Girl is a collection of ekphrastic prose poems based on paintings by Henri Matisse. Liz's collaborations with Rebecca Hart Olander are forthcoming in Duende and They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing (Black Lawrence Press). Liz served as a Peace Corps education volunteer in Kyrgyzstan, and she currently teaches ESOL and writing in the Washington, D.C. area.