“We all need someone we can bleed on.
And if you want it, baby, well you can bleed on me.”
—The Rolling Stones

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Victoria Lau holds an MFA degree from Lindenwood University. She was the 3rd place poetry winner for the Random House Creative Writing Competition in 2013. Her poems have been published in Rogue Agent, The Orchards Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. She was a poetry reader for GASHER Journal and is one of the marketing coordinators for The Adroit Journal. She is writing assistant at the Borough of Manhattan Community College Writing Center and an English adjunct lecturer at Queens College and John Jay. Follow her IG: victoria.lau_calliope_poet.