After a sixteen-year mystery illness that looked like chronic fatigue syndrome, Genevieve Arlie (they/she) was diagnosed with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and therefore took up swimming. When not in the pool getting buff on zero impact, they can be found in coffee shops writing poems about disability, travel, the environment, and their fierce love of animals.

A nominee for Best of the Net and a poetry finalist for the Disquiet Prize, they have received graduate fellowships from Columbia, Iowa, and the University of Georgia, where they’re now a PhD candidate in English–creative writing. Their work appears or will soon in Annulet, Passages North, EcoTheo Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Zoeglossia’s poem of the week, and the Poetry Foundation archive.