Khalisa Rae is a poet, educator, and journalist in Durham, NC, and author of Real Girls Have Real Problems chapbook. Her poetry can be seen in Crab Fat, Rust and Moth, Frontier Poetry, Flypaper Lit, Damaged Goods, Hellebore, Terse, Sundog Lit, PANK Tishman Review, Occulum, and The Obsidian, among others. Khalisa is the winner of the Bright Wings Poetry contest, the Furious Flower Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, and the White Stag Publishing Contest, among others. Currently, she serves as Managing Equity Editor at Carve Magazine and is the Writing Center Director at Shaw University. Her debut collection, Ghost in a Black Girls Throat, is available from Red Hen Press in April 2021 and Unlearning Eden from White Stag Publishing Winter '21.