Lacy Arnett Mayberry is a writer & reader living in the southwest desert. She works as a freelance custom content writer & editor. She was awarded the 2014 AWP Writing Conferences and Centers prize for fiction and her work has appeared in Literary Mama, Tammy, Permafrost, and LunaLuna, among other publications.

Gerard Manley Hopkins is her first and forever language crush. This blog’s name– The Hurl and Gliding–comes from his poem The Windhover.