Catherine Pond, Third Place winner in Narrative’s 2018 Winter Story Contest and a finalist in the Eighth Annual Poetry Contest, is the author of the poetry collection Fieldglass (Southern Illinois University Press, 2021). She taught poetry at the Fashion Institute of Technology for three years and holds an MFA from Columbia University, where she was awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize in 2013. A PhD candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California, she lives in Los Angeles and is the assistant director of the New York State Summer Writers.