Violet Spurlock is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Her scholarly writing has been published or is forthcoming in Critical Inquiry, Post45: Contemporaries, Qui Parle, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, and elsewhere. She is the author of four volumes of poetry: Obviously (forthcoming), My Synonyms (forthcoming), This Reasonable Habit (2026, written with Rainer Diana Hamilton), and In Lieu of Solutions (2023).