When she asks, "Doesn't it just blow your mind when language, something you've intimately known since the age of two, challenges your expectations of how you communicate?" it's clear that A. Rawlings enjoys her work.
The incredibly present and overworked 27-year-old is the co-organizer of the Lexiconjury Reading Series, host for the Bravo! show Heart of a Poet and has just published her first collection of poetry, Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists.