Aliza Haskal is a second-year poetry candidate at Syracuse University. She received her B.A. in English from the University of Mary Washington and earned a University Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets. Aliza aims to capture her personal history through the neurotic, the erotic, and the surreal. She was once described as a "Poet of Skaz,” which pleases her immensely. Aliza is published by Club Plum, Udder Times, Bullsh*t Lit, Applause Journal, Atlantic Northeast, et al.