Mag Gabbert is the author of SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS (Mad Creek Books, 2023), which won The Journal/2021 Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize. Her work can also be found in American Poetry Review, Pleiades, The Paris Review Daily, The Massachusetts Review, and many other publications. She has a PhD in creative writing from Texas Tech University and an MFA from the University of California, Riverside; she’s received fellowships from The Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Idyllwild Arts, and Poetry at Round Top; and in 2021, she was awarded a 92Y Discovery Award. Mag teaches at Southern Methodist University. Her Instagram handle is @mag.gabbert.