Chelsey Waters is an MFA student at Eastern Oregon University where she studies environmental writing and fiction in EOU's Wilderness, Ecology, and Community Program. She was the 2020-2021 Thomas Madden Scholarship recipient, and her fiction has been published in Unearthed and The Hopper (forthcoming). A former whitewater rafting guide, she holds an MA in rhetoric and composition from Washington State University and taught undergraduate English courses for several years. She lives in Walla Walla, Washington, where she works as a freelance editor and fact-checker.