Dawnell Smith works in a cubicle by day, a shared desk pod/family room at night, where she crafts columns, reviews, and articles for daily and weekly newspapers, quarterly magazines, blogs, and other digital chalkboards. When not on quad skates, working on art projects, running errands, and getting outside, she makes essays, poems, short stories, and other mixed-genre pieces. She won a Rasmuson Fellowship in 2015, and is currently working on a collaborative memoir and video/audio project with her partner, Teeka Ballas. She lives in Anchorage with her partner, teenage boys, rescue dogs, crickets, renegade shrews, and lone gecko. (She feels bad about the gecko; it’s cold and the tank seems limiting.) Her derby name is WickedSpeedia.