Betsy Aoki is a poet, videogame producer and speculative fiction writer whose work has been published in Hunger Mountain, Nimrod, The Margins, Southern Humanities Review, Poetry Northwest, Uncanny Magazine, Strange Horizons, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and The Deadlands. She is Uncanny Magazine’s Poetry Editor and prior served as assistant editor at Terrain.org. Aoki’s debut poetry collection about women in technology, Breakpoint, was a National Poetry Series Finalist and winner of the Patricia Bibby First Book Award. Its signature poem, “Slouching like a velvet rope,” was selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Jericho Brown for the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize.