Brandi M. Spaethe received her MFA in poetry from Fresno State where she worked for The Normal School. Her poems have appeared in CRATE, Minola Review, and BLOOM, to name a few. Her chapbook, To You Who Wants In, was released in December 2012. Brandi was a poetry fellow in the 2013 Lambda Literary Foundation's Emerging Writer's Retreat. She is the program associate at Poets & Writers' California Office and teaches at Cal State LA.