Poet's Statement: "Eucharist, Super" developed partly from my fascination with T.S. Eliot's use of heavy Biblical language in unexpected places, especially very modern ones. The place I vindictively chose to put us is The Supermarket. Behind every cereal box and every off brand bottle of prune juice is a keen desire to win you over - with overbright colors, fonts custom-made for every target demographic, and cartoon animals whose species have been extensively debated by focus groups. It is too much. Omniscience, here, isn't something we would wish on anybody.

Bio: Emily McKay is a Creative Writing MLitt of the University of Saint Andrews in Scotland, where she also studied English & Philosophy as an undergraduate. In the five years since, she has worked as a cheesemonger in Scotland, a veterinary receptionist in Florida, and now an electrical calibration technician at a tech company in California. She lives with her husband, two magnificent cats Franz Katka and Duva, and various other beasts. Her poetry and fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Shenandoah, Glimmer Train, The Conium Review, Vallum, Flock and Zarf.