Wendy K. Mages, a Mercy University Professor, is a Pushcart Prize nominee and award-winning poet who earned a master’s and doctorate in Human Development and Psychology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a master’s in Theatre at Northwestern University. She is a storyteller, educator, and researcher and, as a complement to her research on the effect of the arts on learning and development, she performs original stories at storytelling events and festivals in the US and abroad. Her stories and poems appear in journals and anthologies, such as 3cents Magazine, 50-Word Stories, Antithesis Journal Blog, The AutoEthnographer, Collected Winning Poems from The Poetry Society of Virginia: 2023, Five Minutes, Funny Pearls, Harpy Hybrid Review, Hearth & Coffin, Howler Daily, Jarnal, Jenny, The Journal of Stories in Science, LIGHT, New Croton Review, On the Premises, Paper Dragon, Potato Soup Journal, Quibble, Route 7 Review, Scenario, Sea to Sky Review, Star 82 Review, and Young Ravens Literary Review.