Holly Lyn Walrath holds a Bachelor's degree in English from the University of Texas and a Master's in Creative Writing from Denver University. She is a poet and author of the Elgin Award-winning chapbook Glimmerglass Girl (Finishing Line Press, 2018), a chapbook in Italian, Numinose Lapidi (Kipple Press, 2020), and a full-length poetry collection, The Smallest of Bones (Clash Books, 2021). She teaches with Writespace, a Houston-based literary nonprofit, and is the Managing Editor of Interstellar Flight Press, a science fiction and fantasy small press. With Rice University, she is the coordinator for Religious Studies Review, a quarterly review of publications across the entire field of religion and related disciplines.