Born in Los Angeles, Audrey Shipp is an essayist and sometime poet whose most recent writing has been published in Sapphire Hues, Another Chicago Magazine, Pure Slush, Litro Magazine USA, A Gathering Together, and Linden Avenue Literary Journal. Her bilingual poetry appeared in the Americas Review (Arte-Publico Press), which was formerly published by the University of Houston. She holds both a BA in English and M.Ed from UCLA and an MA in English from California State University, Los Angeles. She teaches English and ESL at a public high school in Los Angeles.