Feminist Spaces Summer 2022

Editorial Board Biographies Dakota Parks is a queer poet, freelance writer, and amateur book hoarder. She holds a Master of Arts in English with a specialization in creative writing from the University of West Florida. In 2020, she helped revive Feminist Spaces after its four-year publishing hiatus, and she has served on the editorial board for the literary magazine, Troubadour, as well as the president of the English honor society Sigma Tau Delta. Recently her poetry appeared in Someone Waits for Me, an LGBT-focused documentary screening at film festivals across the nation, Emerald Coast Review, and Sinister Wisdom (forthcoming). She currently resides in Pensacola, FL in an RV-turned-tiny-home with her attack cat and personal library on wheels. You can browse more of her work at dakotaparks.org.

Natalie Duphiney is a graduate student at the University of West Florida. She is pursuing her Master of Arts in English. She frequently writes poetry and is working on a novel, but her interests also include photography and piano. She works as an English writing tutor and hopes to, one day, become an English professor to share with her students how writing can give anyone a voice with which to explore and create.

Kimiko Wadriski Lumsden is pursuing an M.A. in English at the University of West Florida. Kimiko is currently the Managing Editor for Panhandler Magazine and has worked as a freelance writer and editor for over a decade. Her current interests include representations of identity, Biblical hermeneutics, trauma and memory, folklore, and children’s 9