Born and raised on O‘ahu, Mark Olival-Bartley is a doctoral student in the Department of English and American Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, where he teaches composition, creative writing, and American literature; presently, he is writing a dissertation on the poetics of E. A. Robinson’s metasonnet. He is also resident poet of EcoHealth Alliance, where his pandemic-themed verse is regularly featured in EcoHealth. With Amy Mohr, he co-edited New Interpretations of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman (Cambridge Scholars, 2019).