A woman with wavy, dark hair and light-colored eyes is taking a selfie outdoors in front of houses, stairs, and greenery.

Kale Hensley is a poet and visual artist originally from the hills of West Virginia, now living in Texas with her wife and a menagerie of pets.

Her writing, rooted in wonder, dissent, and a love of myth, has appeared in Gulf Coast, Evergreen Review, Epiphany, and other journals, with several nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She is currently at work on plumb rotten, a collection of poetry, and Bloodfowl, a novel inspired by the life of St. Brigid of Kildare.

We wish the ear had not a heart so dangerously near—

A surreal collage of a small church with exaggerated red cowboy boots, a large black hat as a hat, and a house on top, set on a beach with wet sand and calm water in the background.

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