Janna Knittel is from the Pacific Northwest and has lived in Minnesota since 2004. Her book, Real Work, was a 2023 Minnesota Book Award finalist. Knittel’s work includes the chapbook Fish & Wild Life and poems in Blueline, Breakwater Review, Conduit, Constellations, North Dakota Quarterly, Pleiades, Whale Road Review, and The Wild Word, among other journals, as well as the anthologies The Experiment Will Not Be Bound and Waters Deep: A Great Lakes Anthology. Knittel has taught literature and writing classes at colleges and universities in Oregon, Kansas, and Minnesota and also teaches creative writing workshops.