nicole v basta’s poems appear in publications such as Ninth Letter, Birdfeast, Tinderbox, TIMBER, and Heavy Feather. She is the author of chapbook V, winner of The New School’s Annual Contest (2017). basta is also a collage artist, a teaching artist, and Assistant Poetry Editor at ANMLY. Her work has been generously supported by Art Farm Nebraska. The name in her poem published in this journal, Eva, is that of her great-great-grandmother, a member of the world’s disappeared. basta writes so there are no forgotten people.