V.C. Myers is the author of Ophelia (Femme Salvé Books, 2023) and Give the Bard a Tetanus Shot (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2019). She is on the 2024 Contest Panel for Sarabande Books and edited for Frontier Poetry, Ice Floe Press, and Barren Magazine. She was a music journalist for Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper The Charleston Gazette. Her work has appeared in ekphrastic exhibits and journals worldwide, including EPOCH, Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, and The Galway Review. An Appalachian poet, she has lived in Ireland, England, and West Virginia.