Kate Bolton Bonnici holds degrees from Harvard; NYU Law; the University of California, Riverside; and UCLA. Her debut collection, Night Burial, won the 2020 Colorado Prize for Poetry. Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Image, CounterText, Tupelo Quarterly, Foundry, Exemplaria, Arts & Letters, and elsewhere. She is an assistant nonfiction editor at Tupelo Press and an assistant professor of English at Pepperdine University.