Loretta Clodfelter is an Oakland-based writer and managing editor of There. She was poetry editor of 580 Split Issue No. 8 and founding editor of VEX. She was a recipient of the Mary Merritt Henry Poetry Prize, and her work has appeared in The Walrus, Pom2, Mirage #4/Period(ical), Deep South, Coconut, and listenlight. Her book Valley/Ridge is online here, and she intermittently posts random thoughts here.