New Orleans native Sunnylyn Thibodeaux is the author of five full-length collections of poetry, including The World Exactly (Cuneiform Books, 2020), as well as over a dozen small books, including Witch Like Me from the Operating System. A graduate of the legendary New College poetry program, where she studied with the likes of Joanne Kyger and David Meltzer, she was also co-publisher of Auguste Press and Lew Gallery Editons. Thibodeaux is a teacher, neighborhood activist, and tree enthusiast. She is the mother of a Scorpio and wife of a poet and splits her time between San Francisco and New Orleans.