Callista Buchen is the author of the full-length collection Look Look Look (Black Lawrence Press, 2019), and the chapbooks The Bloody Planet (Black Lawrence Press, 2015) and Double-Mouthed (dancing girl press, 2016). Her work has appeared in Jet Fuel Review, Harpur Palate, Puerto del Sol, Fourteen Hills, and many other journals. She is the winner of DIAGRAM‘s essay contest, an Indy Arts Council Creative Renewal Fellowship, and the C.D Wright conference’s Emerging Writer award, and is the founder of the Carlson-Stauffer Reading Series at Franklin College. A longtime editor and teacher, she lives in the Midwest with her family.