Originally from Sauble Beach, Ontario, Canada, Loren Walker (she/they) has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize and chosen as a finalist in the Beulah Rose Poetry Contest and the Harbor Review Editor’s Prize. Their poems have appeared in Hive Avenue Journal, Levee Magazine QU Journal, the West Texas Literary Review, and other publications. Loren's micro-chapbook neverheart was published by Dancing Girl Press in 2021; they also create and sell micro-chapbooks on their online shop Thistle & Crow, along with other art. They currently live in Providence, Rhode Island.