Simona Blat is a poet, writer, and editor, originally from Riga, Latvia. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University and her chapbook, Funeral, was hand-set and printed in collaboration with Pixel Press in 2018. She’s the founding editor of The Brazenhead Review, and currently serves as poetry editor at Epiphany Magazine where she also edits a criticism column. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches creative writing at New York University.