Marybeth Rua-Larsen lives on the south coast of Massachusetts and teaches at Bristol Community College. Her poems, essays, flash fiction and reviews have appeared in American Arts Quarterly, The Raintown Review, Cleaver, Measure, Literary Orphans and Unsplendid. She won the 2011 Over the Edge New Writer of the Year Competition in Poetry in Galway, Ireland, the 2016 Parent-Writer Fellowship at Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and the 2017 Luso-American Fellowship from Disquiet. Her chapbook Nothing In-Between is available from Barefoot Muse Press.