Rina Shamilov is a queer poet and visual artist from Brooklyn, New York, born to Soviet immigrants. Her chapbook, My Mother's Armoire, was published by Bottlecap Press. Her manuscript, Hungering: Dance of the Figurines, has recently been named a finalist in Black Lawrence Press' Immigrant Writing Series contest. She is a nonfiction editor at MAYDAY and a reader for Fence Books. Her recent work can be found (and is forthcoming) in Ritual Dagger, Art of Nothing Press, Antiphony Press, The Laurel Review, Kismet Magazine, and Ranger, among others. The Academy of American Poets has recognized her work, and she received a Best of the Net nomination.