Meredith Boe is a writer, editor, and poet based in Chicago. Her creative work has appeared in multiple literary magazines, and her critique has appeared in World Literature Today magazine. She is a current contributor to the Chicago Review of Books. She sometimes writes poems on a typewriter at events around Chicago with the poetry-on-demand group, Poems While You Wait. Meredith also writes grant proposals for arts nonprofits, contributes articles and web copy for companies around the globe, and copyedits everything from textbooks to CVs. She is an avid supporter of the Oxford comma, plays classical piano, and is learning how to propagate her house plants.