Malina Infante is a third-year MFA Candidate in Poetry and Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She holds a B.A. in English: Creative Writing and Educational Studies from Denison University. Currently, she teaches introductory rhetoric and creative writing courses at the university level and is interested in comparative literature and poetry in translation. Outside of her coursework, she works as the UIUC Ukrainian Initiative Program Coordinator and as a Senior Editorial Assistant for Ninth Letter.