(This poem was accepted prior to alyssa hanna’s involvement in the Barren Magazine Masthead.)
Header photograph © Christopher Nielsen.
alyssa hanna graduated from Purchase College with a degree in Creative Writing and a minor in History. She was nominated for a 2017 Pushcart Prize and was a finalist in the 2017 James Wright Poetry Competition. Her poems have appeared in Reed Magazine, The Mid-American Review, The Naugatuck River Review, Cholla Needles, Rust + Moth, and others. alyssa in an aquarium technician by day and lives in Westchester with her fish and lizards.