Chelsea Risley is a writer, editor, and floral designer in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She is the Executive Director of SoLit and Editor-in-Chief of the Southern Review of Books. She has an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte, and her work has appeared in Juked, Barrelhouse Magazine, Pidgeonholes, Kissing Dynamite, Lunch Ticket, and the Phi Kappa Phi Forum.