Destiny O. Birdsong is a Louisiana-born poet, fiction writer, and essayist who lives and writes in Nashville, Tennessee. Her work has either appeared or is forthcoming in African American Review, Best New Poets 2018, The Cambridge Companion to Transnational American Literature, storySouth, and elsewhere. She has received support from Cave Canem, The Ragdale Foundation, The MacDowell Colony, Jack Jones Literary Arts, and the Tin House Summer Workshop (2018). She earned both her MFA and PhD from Vanderbilt University, where she currently works as a research coordinator.