Kailee Pedersen’s poetry has appeared in Strange Horizons, Sonora Review, Arcturus, and other journals, as well as in They Rise Like a Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets. Adopted from Nanning in 1996 and raised on a farm in Nebraska, Pedersen was awarded an Artist Fellowship from the Nebraska Arts Council for writing centered on LGBTQ+ and Asian American themes. Her debut novel, Sacrificial Animals, is forthcoming from St. Martin’s Press in August 2024. https://kaileepedersen.com (updated 10/2023)