Michele Santamaria is an Assistant Professor and academic librarian at Millersville University in Millersville, Pennsylvania. Most recent poems were published in a special issue of The Canary; her work has also appeared in Bayou Review, Cimarron Review, and South Carolina Review. She is currently at work on a poetry manuscript that interweaves the history of Technicolor movies with family history and the history of race in the Americas. The project draws from her background as a librarian, anthropologist, and poet.