3. Carly Sachs: "Safety and Popsicles"

Carly Sachs is a poet, writer, librarian, and yoga teacher whose work has appeared in The Best American Poetry and NPR’s Selected Shorts. She’s the author of the Steam Sequence and Descendants of Eve, and editor of the Why and Later. Originally from Northeast Ohio, she now lives in Lexington, KY, where she’s a Montessori school librarian and proud mom to a spirited seven-year-old. During the pandemic, she and her daughter began baking challah—find them on Instagram @challah_at_y_all. She loves good coffee, long hikes, and finding joy in the chaos.