A Maine native but an academic gypsy for much of her adult life, Anastasia Walker is a poet, essayist, and scholar living in Pittsburgh. Her poems have appeared in several journals, and her first book of poetry, "The Girl Who Wasn’t and Is," is forthcoming in February 2022. She has published autobiographical essays in 'Shenandoah' and 'Fourth Genre', has blogged for Huffington Post (2016-17), and since spring 2019 has posted occasional pieces on Medium. She has lived in New York City, Philadelphia, Austin, Birmingham, and Edinburgh (Scotland), among other places. She is a political activist, a passionate amateur photographer and musicologist, and a lover of long walks and (when she visits home in the summers) swimming in the ocean.