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H.K. Hummel is a poet, writer, and teacher. She has written two books, Lessons in Breathing Underwater (Sundress Publications, 2019), and Short-form Creative Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2018). She has also published two chapbooks Boytreebird (Finishing Line Press, 2013) and Handmade Boats (Whale Sound, 2010) and had work appear in a variety of literary journals and anthologies, including: Hudson Review, Chattahoochee Review, Fourth River, Booth, Forgotten Women: A Tribute in Poetry (2017), If You Can Hear This: Poets Against an American Inauguration (2017), and The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume VI: Tennessee (2013). She is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. ​Contact her at hkhummel@gmail.com.