Rachel Roupp is a poet from the mountains of Pennsylvania. She proudly graduated from Mansfield University of Pennsylvania and went on to earn a master's in fine arts. Her poetry has appeared in Free the Verse, Persephone’s Daughters, Honey & Lime, and Rust + Moth among others. By day she serves over 300 children and 70 colleagues at a grade school in Pittsburgh. Her work can be found at rachelroupp.com. She lives every day to make Dolly Parton proud.