Maria Williams-Russell is currently an M.F.A. in poetry candidate at Goddard College in Vermont where she is working on a book length collection of poems exploring the themes of adoption, travel, and belonging. She received her B.A.L. from Eugene Lang College of the New School for Social Research with a concentration in creative writing. Maria is also the content editor for an online visual arts collective and a freelance web designer. She lives in Greenfield, Massachusetts, with her husband and two children. Contact: mariawilliams@gmail.com.