is an Associate Professor of Writing at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego. She's also the founding Editor-in-Chief of Whale Road Review and the author of four poetry chapbooks, including The Gospel of the Bleeding Woman. Her first full-length poetry collection, Tasty Other, is forthcoming in November as the 2016 winner of the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award. Find her online at www.katiemanningpoet.com.