Ife-Chudeni A. Oputa is completing an MFA in Poetry and an MA in African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is a Cave Canem, Callaloo and Lambda Literary fellow. Her poetry & prose has appeared or is forthcoming in [PANK] online, Gabby, Some Call it Ballin, Crab Orchard Review and elsewhere. She is a native of Fresno, CA.