REBEKKAH LEIGH LABLUE is a poet, avian ecologist, & trail runner [&&&—] pseudo-native to Appalachian North Carolina by way of Long Island. Her creative work has received support from Bread Loaf, MacDowell, & The Seventh Wave, & appears with Black Warrior Review, Figure 1, & Hayden's Ferry Review, among others. A graduate student in Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, her research considers how protected lands in the Upper Great Lakes region mediate avian range-shifts under rapid climate change. She holds a BA.Sc, BFA, & certificate in literary publishing from the University of North Carolina Wilmington.