Acknowledgements

Some of this work has previously appeared in sometimes wildly different forms in As Close to Smiling As You Can Get originally published by The Cupboard and in NELLE.

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Katie Jean Shinkle on the trailer park of her mind.

by Katie Jean Shinkle

Katie Jean Shinkle is the author of four novellas and six chapbooks, most recently “None of This is an Invitation” (with Jessica Alexander, Astrophil Press, forthcoming) and “Will You Kiss Me Goodnight?” (The Offending Adam, 2021). Recent work has been featured in Fugue, Sou'wester, Always Crashing, NELLE, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. She is a 2021 Lambda poetry fellow, co-poetry editor of DIAGRAM, and teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing, Editing, and Publishing program at Sam Houston State University.