Lori Jakiela is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg, USA. She was an international flight attendant for Delta Air Lines from 1994-2001 and has written about her experiences as a flight attendant in multiple books, including Miss New York Has Everything (2006), Spot the Terrorist: Poems (2012), and Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe (2016). Her writing has also appeared in Pittsburgh Magazine, Pittsburgh Quarterly, the Modern Love column in The New Ork Times, The Washington Post, Belt Magazine, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and other outlets.