Trinity Herr is a poet and storyteller from the mountains of the Oregon Coast Range. Her first job was baiting hooks, casting poles, and gutting fish for visitors at the pay-to-fish ponds adjoining her family's roadside diner. Since then she's been as a phlebotomist, gun seller, veterinary technician, and graduate teaching assistant at the University of Montana where she is pursuing her MFA in Creative Writing. Her writing frequently explores violence, femininity, grief and small ancestries through the natural world and its environmental and animal vernaculars.