Carrie Olivia Adams lives in Chicago where she is the poetry editor for Black Ocean and the Promotions and Marketing Communications Director for the University of Chicago Press. Her books include Be the thing of memory, Operating Theater, Forty-One Jane Doe’s, and Intervening Absence, in addition to the chapbooks Proficiency Badges, Grapple, Overture in the Key of F, and A Useless Window. She is the curator of the Poetry & Biscuits house reading series and the newsletter of the same name, and when she’s not making poems, she’s probably making biscuits.