isaiah a. hines is a poet and scholar from Burlington, Vermont. Their debut collection, null landing was chosen as winner of the Slope Editions Book Prize (2020) and a finalist for the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation Legacy Award in Poetry (2023). Their writing can be found in FLAT Journal (UCLA) and is forthcoming in Obsidian: Arts & Literature of the African Diaspora and Root Work Journal. They studied film and ethnic studies at Columbia University and Brooklyn College, CUNY moving to Troy, New York for a PhD in communication and rhetoric at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.