Shavonne Clarke is a writer and editor in Washington, D.C. She graduated in 2013 from Purdue University's MFA program in creative writing, where she spent two years as the nonfiction editor of Sycamore Review. Her fiction has appeared in Asteri(ix) Journal, Bellevue Literary Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review and Kenyon Review Online. Shavonne also volunteers for Ujima, an international foundation for children. You can read more from her at shavonneclarke.com.