Allyn Bernkopf is pursuing her Ph.D. in Creative Writing at Oklahoma State University, where she was the recipient of the Gladys Burris Creative Writing Fellowship. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Mason Street Review, Open Minds Quarterly, Slippery Elm Literary Journal, Barely South Review, The Greensboro Review, Black Fox Literary Magazine, and others, and has been anthologized in Women's Voices Anthology (These Fragile Lilacs 2017) and Lost: Reflections (Medusa's Laugh Press, 2017). She holds a Master of Arts in English from Weber State University and has taught at the university level since 2015 with a stint in secondary education from 2017-2020.