Veronica Fletcher is a poet born and raised on the gulf coast of Florida. She holds a B.A. in English from Florida State University, where she served as an editorial assistant for The Kudzu Review. She is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she serves as a graduate teaching associate, poetry co-editor for Grist Journal, and co-host of the Chiasmus reading series. She works as a reader for Palette Poetry. Her work appears, or is forthcoming in, Beloit Poetry Journal, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Southern Humanities Review, ANMLY, South Florida Poetry Journal, Peatsmoke, The Shore, Rust & Moth, and elsewhere. She is currently working on her first poetry manuscript.