Jo Bear is a queer and disabled poet, scholar, and educator currently pursuing their MFA in poetry at North Carolina State University. They have an MA in Drama & Performance Studies from University College Dublin and are a Zoeglossia Fellow. Their poetry appears or is forthcoming in Amsterdam Review, The Offing, Sho Poetry Journal, Channel, West Branch, The South Carolina Review, Blue Earth Review, Poetry Ireland Review, ROPES Literary Journal, and elsewhere.