Shayla Lawson is (and / or, at times, has been) an amateur acrobat, an architect, a Dutch housewife & dog-mother to one irascible hound. Her work has appeared in print & online at Tin House, ESPN, Salon & Guernica. She is the author of A Speed Education in Human Being, the chapbook PANTONE & I Think I’m Ready to See Frank Ocean. She is a 2017 MacDowell Colony Fellow, a 2018 Yaddo Artists’ Colony fellow, and co-curator of The Tenderness Project with Ross Gay.