Donna Isaac is a teaching artist who organizes community readings in the Twin Cities, Minn.; she curates and hosts the reading series, Literary Lights. Published poetry includes Footfalls (Pocahontas Press), a paean to growing up in the Appalachians; three chapbooks: Tommy (Red Dragonfly Press), Holy Comforter (Red Bird Chapbooks), and Persistence of Vision (Finishing Line Press); and work in literary journals such as The Tishman Review, The Saint Paul Almanac, and The Penn Review. Find more of her work at donnaisaacpoet.com.