Alexandra Englehart is a first-year MFA in Poetry at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Hailing from Richmond,Virginia, she received her B.A. in English with a Creative Writing Minor from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2019. She has had poems featured in the VCU online journal Poictesme (pwa-tem) and online magazine Persephone's Daughters. Aside from poetry she also has an interest in film studies as well as gender and sexuality. Her current work is focused on the body and its relationships with trauma, sexuality, the handling and placement of bodies, bones, and life structures through a multitude of visual expressions and explorations of “flight”.