Court Ludwick is a writer, teacher, and doctoral candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at USD. These Strange Bodies, her debut hybrid nonfiction collection, is forthcoming from ELJ Editions in September 2024. Her poetry, essays, fiction, and criticism have appeared in Jet Fuel Review, Oxford Magazine, Cheat River Review, Watershed Review, Eclectica Magazine, Mid-Heaven Magazine, Milk Carton Press, and elsewhere. She is an associate poetry editor at South Dakota Review, and her visual art has most recently shown at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts. She lives with her lucky black cat, October, and a couple ghosts, probably. She is currently at work on a horror short story collection and her second experimental nonfiction book. You can connect with Court on Instagram @courtlud, Twitter @courtludwick, and on www.courtlud.com.