Angelina Oberdan Brooks is a writer and professor. The poems in her chapbook, Heavy Bloom, were written when she solo-camped across the country with her dogs. Since those living-out-of-her -car summers, she has fallen love, embraced step-motherhood, and spent time healing. Her poems have become daily protests—against production determining our worth, against busyness becoming a way of life, against obfuscating physical pain. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in journals like Split Rock Review and Litmosphere.