Rita has been a part of the Writopia Lab team since 2015. She received her MFA from Oregon State University, where she taught composition and creative writing. Her work has appeared in Willow Springs, Salamander Magazine, and Beloit Poetry Journal, among other publications, and has been nominated for Best of the Net and Best New Poets. She is the author of the young adult novel-in-verse Meet Me in the Fourth Dimension (Page Street, 2024), as well as two poetry collections from Brain Mill Press. When she’s not writing, you can find her walking through the woods with her dog The Young Lord Westley of Steeplechase.