Alessandra Simmons is a PhD student at UW-Milwaukee in English, Creative Writing and a poetry editor at cream city review. Her poems have appeared in The Other Journal, WomenArts Quarterly, Rabbit Catastrophe, Hawaii Pacific Review and other journals. Her current obsessions are maps and paddleboarding. She splits her time between Milwaukee and Washington Island where she works at Hoot Blossom Farm, which supplies fresh veggies and flowers to local restaurants.