Sarah Heying is a PhD candidate in English and Gender Studies at the University of Mississippi, where she researches the relationship between queer reproductive politics and creative practices in southern lesbian literature. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in West Branch, Lambda Literary, Bitch, Lit Hub, and elsewhere, and her short story, “The Chair Kickers’ Tale,” won the 2019 Robert Watson Fiction Award from The Greensboro Review.