Ellie Stimpson is the John DeWitt Gregory Writer-in-Residence at the Bronx Academy of Letters and the director of WriteNYC, a youth writing education program supported by Teachers & Writers Collaborative. She holds an MFA in poetry from New York University and co-hosts the DGN Reading Series in Brooklyn. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Boulevard Magazine, The Greensboro Review, Narrative Magazine, and elsewhere.