Lee Anne Gallaway-Mitchell grew up working on a family farm in Lockney, Texas. Her essays and poems often concern the intersections between land use in farming and military families. Lately, she’s been writing a shit-ton of “dead dad poems” — including a prose poem series on hauntings and the movie Poltergeist, a cycle of Dust Bowl poems inspired by rural women’s cookbooks, and another assortment of short, lyrical musings on war and motherhood. When she’s not writing, she tends to her children, chickens, and an arthritic dog named Barley. She has traveled the world with her beloved, a childhood friend turned husband, who comes from the same strange and wounded earth of the Llano Estacado.
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