"The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them"

—Maya Angelou

Ciara Miller, a native of Chicago, is a poetry MFA candidate and an African American/African Diaspora Studies MA candidate at Indiana University. She has published poems and academic essays in such collections and periodicals as Callaloo, the African American Review, PLUCK, Chorus, Alice Walker: Critical Insights, and Cave Canem Anthology XII.