A graduate of the University of Oxford’s MSt in Creative Writing program, Carolyn E. M. Gibney is also the founder and editor of the (now defunct) queer Christian literary magazine, ‘The St. Sebastian Review.’ In 2013, her poem ‘St. Joan of Arc Learns to Ride a Bike’ was highly commended in the UK Poetry Book Society’s Student Poetry competition. Recently, her poem ‘The Higgs Boson Describes a Child’s Birth to Her’ was displayed in the Bodleian Library. Other poems have appeared in ‘Ruminate’ magazine and ‘Adrienne Rich: A Tribute Anthology.’ She lives with her wife and their cat in Boston.