Naudia Reeves is a queer poet from Southwest Florida with an MFA from Florida Atlantic University. Now based in Michigan, she writes at the intersections of queerness, grief, joy, and self-critique, often letting one of her four naughty cats sneak onto the page. She considers herself a lifelong student of the Florida mangroves, Mary Oliver, and raspberry beer. Her work has appeared in The Passionfruit Review, Progenitor, LETTERS Journal, The Mangrove Review, The Swamp Ape Review, and elsewhere. When not writing, she can usually be found watering her monstera adansonii and stubborn calatheas, spoiling her brood of rats with sweets, or rewatching the Twilight series-strictly for "inspiration."