Sara Dovre Wudali grew up on a farm in southwest Minnesota, where the wind blows through the cottonwoods and box elder bugs rule. She was a 2023–2024 Poetry Fellow in the Loft Mentor Series and has received support from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council. Her poems and essays have been published in literary journals and anthologies such as under the gum tree, Barrelhouse, North Dakota Quarterly, and Sweet. She is the co-editor of the chapbook, All You Need is One Avocado and a mentor with the Minnesota Prison Writers Workshop. Dovre Wudali lives in Saint Paul with her family. You can learn more and read her work at saradovrewudali.com.