Tara Betts is the author of Refuse to Disappear, Break the Habit, Arc & Hue. Betts teaches at DePaul University’s Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies Program and serves as poetry editor for The Langston Hughes Review. Betts co-edited The Beiging of America: Being Mixed Race in the 21st Century, a new edition of Philippa Duke Schuyler’s Adventures in Black & White, and Carving Out Rights From Inside the Prison Industrial Complex. Her poems, essays, and short stories have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies.