Alina Zollfrank dreams trilingually in the Pacific Northwest. Her work has won the DIAJ Award and been nominated repeatedly for Best of the Net and The Pushcart Prize. Her creative nonfiction and poetry have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The MacGuffin, Salt Hill, Burningword, Gyroscope Review, Bicoastal Review, Stonecoast Review, and Sunlight Press. Alina is a haphazard but passionate gardener and a disability advocate. Today she really, really misses her husband.