Vivian I. Bikulege is a Pushcart nominee and Gilbert-Chappell poet in western North Carolina. Her work appears in Presence, Broad River Review, The Petigru Review, Pinesong, and the upcoming storySouth. Her essay, “Cuttings,” will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in Reading as a Writer by Erin Pushman. She holds an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte in non-fiction.