Mary Alice Dixon is a Pushcart nominee who taught architectural history in the U.S. and China. She is an award-winning poet and finalist for the NC Poetry Society’s 2023 Poet Laureate Award. Her writing appears in the PSPP anthologies Twists and Turns, Curious Stuff, Trouble, and That Southern Thing. She has recent work in County Lines, Kakalak, Mythic Circle, Pinesong, Petigru Review, and elsewhere. Mary Alice lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she volunteers with hospice, participates in Charlotte Writers Club and Charlotte Lit, and loves hats, honeybees, and old stories.