Rhiannon Thorne earned her PhD in English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette where she was a University Fellow. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing at Louisiana State University where she focused on Hybridity. Her thesis The Wooden Boy was selected by Sawako Nakayasu for the 2019 Robert Penn Warren Thesis Award for Poetry. She is an Editor-at-Large for Up the Staircase Quarterly, an Acquisitions Intern at UL Press, and Managing Editor of  cahoodaloodaling, a Sundress Publications journal (on hiatus). She has also served as Interview/Reviews Editor for New Delta Review, as Co-Director of the Delta Mouth Literary Festival, as Creative Nonfiction Editor for Rougarou, and as Editorial Assistant for The Southern Review. Her creative work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Midwest Quarterly, and The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review, among others, and her scholarly work has appeared in The Lion and the Unicorn. Rhiannon researches the mobilization of imaginary Souths and their constellation of tropes in children’s literature and comics, with a focus on sentient dolls, vegetal humanoids, and the swampscape. She may be reached by email at rhiannon_thorne [at] live [dot] com.