Caroline Chavatel is a Baltimore native and is currently a MFA candidate at New Mexico State University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Fugue, So to Speak, Slipstream, Potomac Review, and Sugar House Review, among others. Her poem, "The Given, These Bodies," was selected by Phillip B. Williams for The Cossack Review's first annual October Prize for Poetry. She lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico.