Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Traci O'Dea is a writer and editor currently living in the Channel Islands, UK. She has an MA and an MFA from Johns Hopkins University. Her book, Restricted Movement (Scotland Street Press 2021), includes paintings by her father. Additionally, her work appears in Poetry, Poetry Daily, Literary Matters, 32 Poems, The Jersey Evening Post, The Fiddlehead, Where I See the Sun: Contemporary Poetry in the Virgin Islands, and elsewhere.