Darby Price was born and raised in Southeast Louisiana, a place that influences much of her work. She earned her BA at Florida State University and her MFA at George Mason University, where she was a Heritage Fellow and the Poetry Editor for Phoebe. Her poetry has appeared in No Contact, Beloit Poetry Journal, RHINO, Redivider, and Zócalo Public Square, among others, and her reviews and interviews have appeared in The Collagist (now The Rupture) and The Southeast Review. Her most recent essay, “A Michael Bay Brain,” was anthologized in Far Villages: Welcome Essays for New and Beginner Poets (Black Lawrence Press). She has taught literature, creative writing, and rhetoric to students from K-12 through college, and has developed curriculum in a range of genres for PEN America, UC Irvine, and WriteGirl Los Angeles. Darby currently serves as a Continuing Lecturer at UC Irvine and makes her home in Long Beach, CA.