Stacey Waite is the Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln and is the author of five collections of poetry: Choke (winner of the Frank O’Hara Prize for Poetry), Love Poem to Androgyny, the lake has no saint (Winner of the Snowbound Prize for Poetry), Butch Geography (2013), and A Real Man Would Have A Gun (University of New Mexico Press, 2025). Waite is also the author of Teaching Queer: Radical Possibilities for Writing and Knowing (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017). Working in both creative writing and composition studies, Waite is also co-editor of Inventing the Discipline: Student Work in Composition Studies and the textbook, Ways of Reading. Waite’s poetry and essays have appeared in such journals as Writing on the Edge, Assay, New Territory, Literacy in Composition Studies, and Black Warrior Review. Waite’s poems have been anthologized in a range of collections including Best American Poetry andThe Norton Introduction to Literature.Visit Waite’s website at www.staceywaite.com.