April Pameticky moved to Wichita in 2003 and was swept up in the creative Vortex. The mother of two shares time between her high school English classroom and the burgeoning community of artists and writers in Kansas. She facilitated the Wichita Broadside Project 2017 and currently serves as editor of River City Poetry, an online poetry journal. Her own work can be seen in journals like Malpais Review, KONZA, and Turtle Island Quarterly. She is also the author of several chapbooks, Sand River and Other Places I've Been (2013, Finishing Line Press); and Anatomy of a Sea Star (2015, Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press).