Gyasi Hall is a writer and critic from Columbus, Ohio. Their essays “Alas, Poor Fhoul” and “Eminem Drop-Kicked Me in This Dream I Had” were both nominated for the Pushcart Prize. They received their MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Iowa, and their work can be found in Guernica, Longreads, ANMLY, The Iowa Review, Speculative Nonfiction, BRINK, and The Black Warrior Review, among others.