Elise HoucekElise Houcek is a writer, artist, and recent graduate of the MFA program at the University of Notre Dame. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The New Delta Review, The Comstock Review, DIAGRAM, Prelude, Posit, Afternoon Visitor, Always Crasing and other journals and has been supported by residencies from Art Farm and a fellowship from the Pierce Cedar Creek Institute for Environmental Education. Her poetry chapbook, So Neon Was the Rope, was a semi-finalist for the 2021 Tomaz Salamun Prize from Verse and will be published by Osmanthus Press in 2022. TRACTATUS (Spuyten Duyvil, 2021) is her first book. Read More Read Less