Nora Kirkham is a poet and fiction writer from Maine. She was raised in Japan, Australia, and Romania, and currently lives in Scotland where she is pursuing a Ph.D. in modern and contemporary literature at the University of Aberdeen. She has an M.Litt. in Theology and the Arts from the University of St Andrews and an M.A. in Creative Writing from University College Cork. Her writing features in Rock & Sling, Ruminate Magazine, Tokyo Poetry Journal, St Katherine Review, and Topology Magazine.