Trista Mateer is a visual artist, poet, writer, and freelance editor who has been writing since she was twelve years old and has never found a good reason to quit. She is the author of several poetry volumes, including When The Stars Wrote Back (2020), Aphrodite Made Me Do It (2019), Honeybee (2018), and The Dogs I Have Kissed (2015), which received a Readers Choice Award the year it was released. She currently resides in a house by the sea in New Jersey, where she stares out over the surf and waits for the words to wash ashore when she's not wrangling her cat, Honeybun. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter at @tristamateer, and check out her website at tristamateer.com.