Hannah Loeb is a 5th year English PhD candidate at UVA. Her dissertation project deals with how the ghost meter metaphor manifests in terms of lineation, syntax, and affect in modern and contemporary poetry. She earned her BA from Yale University in 2012 and her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2015, and her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Moth, Oxford Poetry, Digging Through the Fat, Plainsongs, Booth, Ninth Letter, Apricity Press, Ornery Quarterly, American Chordata, Prodigal, and elsewhere.