Lydia Abedeen is a rising second-year MFA+MA poetry candidate at Northwestern’s Litowitz Graduate Creative Writing Program. Her scholarly research resides in studying power structures of cults and the depiction of monstrosity and femininity in literature. She is a 2021 Tin House Scholar and a 2021 Bucknell Summer Undergraduate Poetry Fellow, and her writing has been supported by the University of Iowa. She has been published in The Rumpus and is forthcoming in Poetry Online. You can follow her on Twitter @lydia_abedeen.