Francesca Hyatt is a German-American writer, translator and English professor at CUNY-Queens College. She’s the 2021 winner of the Birdhouse Prize for her chapbook Forestwish, published by Ghostbird Press, and the co-editor of the anthology Eating Alone: Essays & Reflections, 2023. Together with Marine Cornuet, she is the co-founder and editor of clotheslines, a print literary journal and micro-press. She has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from CUNY-Queens College. You can find her writing at KTB Magazine, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, minor literature[s] and more.