Maureen Bocka

Maureen Bocka is a poet whose first collection, the chapbook First Name Barbie, Last Name Doll, was published by Headmistress Press in 2016. The book uses Barbie dolls as a voice for themes of love, loss, gender, and sexuality. It is described as her first poetry collection. Illinois Times described her as a recent University of Illinois Springfield graduate and a former assistant managing editor of The Alchemist Review and Uproot magazine. She read at the Vachel Lindsay Home in Springfield in 2016.