Eulea Kiraly is a second year an MFA candidate with the at the University of Central Arkansas where she has served as the managing editor of the Arkana Literary Magazine.Before starting the course, she lived less than an hour from the Mississippi River and taught in three different prisons in the Arkansas delta. Before that, she lived in Australia where she worked as a theatre director, community arts facilitator, and writer of short fiction, poetry, and arts journalism with multiple publications in Muse, Artlook, ANU Reporter, and Canberra Times. Since she comes from a family of quilters, Eulea is delighted that her first US publication is with Thimble!