Angela Townsend works for a cat sanctuary, where she gets to bear witness to mercy for all beings. She is a five-time Pushcart Prize nominee and the 2024 winner of West Trade Review’s 704 Prize for Flash Fiction. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Arts & Letters, Blackbird, Epiphany, Peatsmoke Journal, and SmokeLong Quarterly, among others. She graduated from Princeton Seminary and Vassar College and laughs with her poet mother every morning.