Adrian Blevins is a professor of English and Creative Writing at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, where she directs the Creative Writing Program. She is the author of four full-length collections of poetry: Status Pending (Four Way Books, 2023), Appalachians Run Amok, Live from the Homesick Jamboree and The Brass Girl Brouhaha, as well as Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean, a co-edited collection of essays by new and emerging Appalachian writers.