Kate McGill Wyer ’02 is a writer, nonprofit director, and somatics teacher. Her work has been featured in West Branch, Necessary Fiction, Unsaid, Exquisite Corpse, and other journals. She is a senior director at the Mental Health Association of Maryland and leads a program that oversees the quality of services in the public behavioral health system. As a certified yoga teacher from the University of Maryland, Center for Integrated Medicine, she leads trauma-informed classes and teaches nervous system regulation. “Wyer writes with the eye and ear of a poet, her prose spare and resonant, her perceptions original, quiet, strange, and strangely moving, as when she describes silence as ‘the tsk tsk of straw brooms cleaning some corner, some hallway.’ Wyer shows us ways of experiencing the world that run the risk, in our current time, of being forgotten.” —Elizabeth Spires. Moderated by Nairobi Collins ’05.