Courtney Bambrick teaches writing at Thomas Jefferson University’s East Falls campus in Philadelphia. She was poetry editor at Philadelphia Stories until 2024. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Mom Egg Review, Pinhole, Thimble, SWWIM Everyday, New York Quarterly, Invisible City, Healing Verse: Philly Poetry Line and more. Her chapbook Rape Baby, a runner up in the 2013 Pavement Saw competition, was published as “Caring for Your Rape” at The Fanzine. Her chapbook World Without is available from Bottlecap Press.