Shawn Fawson, a finalist in Narrative’s Eighth Annual Poetry Contest, is the author of Some Giving Way, winner of the Utah Book Award for Poetry. She holds an MFA from Vermont College and is a doctoral student in the joint PhD program at the Iliff School of Theology and the University of Denver, where she studies the intersections of theology and contemporary poetry. Fawson lives in Denver, where she serves as an on-call hospital chaplain.