Joanna Gordon is a writer from the gentrified swamplands of East Honolulu. She is a first-year PhD candidate studying Storytelling and Rhetoric at Indiana University and has degrees from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Western Washington University. Her poems and prose have been published with Cherry Tree, The Tenderness Project, Blood Tree Literature, The Shore, Oxford Press, Nimrod and more. Her poems are interested in notions of belonging, joy, settler colonialism, and more. In her spare time Joanna enjoys scalding cups of coffee, hiking, bright lipstick and the company of great friends.