Carol Richardson McCullough is a retired English/Language Arts teacher by trade and a poet/memoirist at heart. She is a founding member of Writers Room at Drexel University and a TRIPOD Writer-In-Residence. She is currently a community researcher with the Justice-Oriented Youth (JOY) Education Lab at Drexel’s School of Education, as well as Writers Room Archivist. Her writing includes a chapter book (Implosion); poems, essays, and memoir. McCullough is published in Writers Room Anthology, Vol. 1-10, and The 33rd; as well as contributing to the Journal of Trauma Studies in Education (2022).