Delia Rainey is a writer, musician, and educator living in St. Louis, Missouri. She received her MFA in nonfiction from Columbia College Chicago in 2021. She plays music in the bands Dubb Nubb, Freckles, and her solo project dee bird. Her writing has been published in DIAGRAM, Brink, Midwest Review, and many others. She is the author of CRUMBBOOK (Bottlecap Press / Bottlecap Features 2021), Private Again (Ghost City Press micro chapbook series, 2018), and an ambient-poetry album The Blue and Red Gummy Worm (Grownup Music, 2018). She works at the writing center at St. Louis Community College. Delia’s substack is called archival tendencies.