Aliah Lavonne Tigh has authored a poetry collection, A Body Fully, and in 2012, a study examining the economic backdrop of revolution. She holds poetry and philosophy degrees from the University of Houston and began her MFA at the University of Indiana, where she was awarded the Neal-Marshall Fellowship in Creative Writing. Her poems have been featured in Matter Monthly, Glass Mountain, and others, and most recently, her poetry has been nominated for inclusion in the upcoming 2015 Best of the Net Anthology. Tigh is an artist-in-residence with Houston’s Writers in the Schools.