Annelise Schoups
is a Chicana Belgian-American poet, essayist, and wannabe critic who laughs at her own jokes and writes about things that are mostly not funny. Her poetry appears in the San Diego Poetry Annual, where it earned Honorable Mention for the Steve Kowit Poetry Prize, as well as in HAD, collaborature, Silly Goose Press Issue One, and december magazine, where it was selected as a semifinalist for the Marvin Bell Memorial Poetry Prize. She has reviews in Hunger Mountain, Tupelo Quarterly, and forthcoming in Another Chicago Magazine. You can find her in San Diego, where she plans thru-hikes with her partner, or on Instagram, where it's less weird to follow her, @anneliseschoups.