Zach Kennedy-Lopez is an MFA student at Rutgers University–Camden. He received his BA from Southern Oregon University and his MA from UC Davis, and between the two he worked as a wordslinger/occasional truthbender for a corporation specializing in overpriced food gifts. He’s a cat-dad who likes swimming, Mexican literature, and Latin American electronic music. His work has appeared in West Wind Review (under the pseudonym Gavin Hollingsworth) and Vortex.