Janelle DolRayne’s poems and essays have appeared  in The Laurel Review, The Indiana Review, Ninth Letter, The Collagist, Parcel, Interrupture, and the 2013 Best of the Net Anthology, among others. She is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, the Vandewater Poetry Award, and an M.F.A. degree from The Ohio State University. Her essay "An Ocean Existing Somewhere Without Us," was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Originally from Coal Creek Canyon, CO, she currently calls Los Angeles home. She teaches and coordinates the University Core Curriculum at Loyola Marymount University. Her passions include art, karaoke, and pugs.