Born in Oahu, Hawaii, Babette Cieskowski has lived in South Florida, Kitzingen, Germany and Central Texas. She earned her MFA in Poetry from The Ohio State University in 2018, and she currently works with The Ohio Prison Education Exchange Project (OPEEP) to increase access to higher education for incarcerated individuals within Ohio prisons. Her poems have appeared in Compose, the minnesota review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Zone 3, Frontier Poetry, Crab Orchard Review, Prairie Schooner, Juked, The Laurel Review, among others. She is the author of the poetry chapbook 'Secrets My Body Keeps' (dancing girl press, 2022).