Ali Lanzetta is a woolgatherer, teacher, artist, and bookseller. Her poetry and prose have appeared in Hunger Mountain, Verse, Switchback, Eleven Eleven, Sugar Mule, The Invisible City Audio Tours, A Capella Zoo, and We Still Like. She was a finalist for the Compass Rose Flash Fiction prize in 2012, and her manuscript music for birds was first runner-up for the 2011 Kore Press First Book Prize.  Ali is enamored with giraffes, whose hearts are over two feet long.