Ali Beheler is a poet, essayist, and philosopher. Her recent work appears in The Penn Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Harpur Palate, The Shore, Stone Circle Review, ballast journal, Rogue Agent, and elsewhere. Winner of the SRPR Editor’s Prize and the Milton J. Kessler Memorial Prize in Poetry, she has also received writing residencies from Sundress Academy for the Arts and Dorland Mountain Arts Colony. Her chapbook, All Our (Un)Makings, will be published by Finishing Line Press in October 2026. She teaches at Hastings College in Hastings, NE. Find her at www.alibeheler.com.