Knar Gavin is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, and they recently completed their doctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania, where they served as the Poetic Practice Fellow at the Kelly Writers House. Their dissertation, "'Fend for Meaningful Speech': Matters of Social Fact in Post-9/11 Docupoetry," attends to the prefigurative political possibilities that emerge in documentary poetry. They are a community defense and environmental justice organizer, cyclist-runner, and adjunct prof in Philadelphia, PA. Knar is the author of Vela. (the Operating System, 2019) and their poetry and other writings have appeared in Annulet, Poetry, the Denver Quarterly, AGNI, the Journal, NiCHE, and Birdfeast, among others.