Cathlin Noonan (she/her) is an MFA student at Texas State University. She was finalist for Crazyhorse’s 2022 Lynda Hull Memorial Prize in Poetry and runner-up for Sweet Lit’s 2021 annual poetry prize. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in The Broadkill Review, Broad River Review, Crazyhorse, Pidgeonholes, Ruminate, and Small Oranges Journal among others. Cathlin is a poetry editor for The Night Heron Barks, an associate editor for Ran Off With the Star Bassoon, and co-editor at Next Page Press.

—-What to write now? Can you still write anything?
—-One writes with one’s desire, and I am not through desiring.
— Roland Barthes