Caits Meissner, a finalist in Narrative’s Eighth Annual Poetry Contest, is the coauthor, with Tishon Woolcock, of The Letter All Your Friends Have Written You and Let It Die Hungry (2016). She earned the Jerome Lowell DeJur Prize from the City College of New York, where she received her MFA (2017). An educator, she has taught people from a wide spectrum of communities, specializing in places of incarceration as well as women and youth.