"Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice."
-Italo Calvino
Shayla Lawson is the nonfiction editor of Indiana Review and author of A Speed Education in Human Being. Her work has appeared in Colorado Review, Winter Tangerine, MiPOesias, and inter|rupture, among others. She is the recipient of Sou'Wester's Robbins Poetry Award and teaches for Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts.