Aubrey Ann Laughlin is a graduate student of comparative literature at San Jose State University. Her multidisciplinary interests include psychoanalysis, ancient Near Eastern literature and languages, mythology, feminist studies, natural sciences, and travel writing. Besides writing research papers and poetry, she is also a traveler, singer/songwriter, conference speaker, and published photographer – translating into art what she learns in life. She has work published in Elephant Journal, Poetry Quarterly, Lehigh Valley Vanguard Collections Volume Seven: Writing the Femme, Convergence: An Online Journal of Poetry & Art, The Waggle, and Aelurus Journal.