Molly Schaeffer's chapbook, STATE ZAP,* was published by MO(0)ON/IO in 2023. A graduate of Brown University's MFA in poetry, she was a Fellow at the Lighthouse Works on Fishers Island in 2023 and a finalist in BOMB Magazine's 2022 Poetry Contest. She works in writing and visual art, and teaches writing at Tacoma Community College and Pierce College; in the Summer @Brown Precollege Program at Brown University; and at Hugo House, a writing center in Seattle. She lives in Tacoma, WA.