I know that many of us are ready to kiss 2016 goodbye: it's been full of public and private heartbreak and loss. However, 2016 has been a banner year in my professional and writing life: a book contract for The Things a Body Might Become with ELJ Editions, a record number of publications/acceptances (43!!), winning the Southern Humanities Review's 2016 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, spending two weeks each at Firefly Farms and Rivendell Writers Colony, completing Tupelo's 30-da