Nico AlvaradoNico Alvarado (issue 1) is currently reading John Banville in the morning, Jordan Stempleman in the afternoon, and Jane Gardam at night.

Kurt BealsKurt Beals (issue 4), b. 1980 in Columbus, Ohio, is a doctoral student in German literature at the University of California, Berkeley. His translation of Anja Utler’s engulf – enkindle, published in 2010 by Burning Deck, was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award and the Best Translated Book Award. His translation of Regina Ullmann’s short-story collection The Country Road is forthcoming from New Directions.

J.P. Dancing BearJ.P Dancing Bear (issue 4) is editor for the American Poetry Journal and Dream Horse Press.  Bear also hosts the weekly hour-long poetry show, Out of Our Minds, on public radio station, KKUP and available as podcasts.  He is the author of eleven previous collections of poetry, and his honors include winning the 2002 Slipstream Chapbook Prize, and receiving the 2010 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles National Literary Award for poetry.  His work has appeared in hundreds of publications and anthologies. His twelfth book, The Abandoned Eye, will be released shortly by FutureCycle Press.

Erika Jo BrownErika Jo Brown (issue 4) is from New York. Her chapbook, What a Lark!, was published by Further Adventures Press in 2011. Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Ilk, H_NGM_N, Anomalous, Spork, and Forklift, Ohio. She currently lives in Savannah, GA, where she co-curates the Seersucker Shots poetry reading series.

Lily BrownLily Brown (issue 1) was born and raised in Massachusetts; she currently lives in Athens, Georgia, where she is pursuing a Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing. Her first book, Rust or Go Missing, was recently published by Cleveland State University Poetry Center, and a new chapbook, Being One, is available from Brave Men Press.


John CanfieldJohn Canfield (issue 5) grew up in Cornwall, went to university in mid-Wales and now lives in London, which is somewhere in-between. His poems have appeared in Oxford Poetry, Newspaper Taxis: Poetry After The Beatles and the forthcoming Coin Opera II from Sidekick Books.

Bill CartyBill Carty (issue 4) grew up in Maine and now lives in Seattle, where he teaches at Edmonds Community College, 826 Seattle, and the Richard Hugo House. His chapbook, Refugium, is forthcoming from Alice Blue Books in the fall of 2012.

MRB ChelkoMRB Chelko (issue 1) is a recent graduate of The University of New Hampshire's MFA program and Assistant Editor of the unbound journal, Tuesday; An Art Project. She has poems in current or forthcoming issues of AGNI Online; Bateau; Forklift, Ohio; The Laurel Review; Sixth Finch; and Washington Square among others. Chelko has two chapbooks: The World after Czeslaw Milosz (Dream Horse Press, 2011), which won the 2010 Dream Horse Press National Chapbook Prize, and What to Tell the Sleeping Babies (sunnyoutside, 2010). She lives in Central Harlem with her husband, Nick, and dog, Chuck.

Ryan CollinsRecent poems by Ryan Collins (issue 4) can be found in H_NGM_N; Jellyfish; Handsome; Spork; DIAGRAM; Smoking Glue Gun; Forklift, Ohio; & the Hell Yes Press cassette anthology 21 Love Poems. He is the drummer for Healing Power & lives in the Illinois Quad Cities.

Max CzollekMax Czollek (issue 4) b. 1987 in Berlin, attended Jewish school from 1993-2006, studied political science at the Freie Universität, Berlin from 2006-12. His first book, Druckkammern (Pressure Chambers), was published in 2012 by J. Frank. Additional publications in magazines (poet, randnummer, Belletristik) and anthologies.  

Nia DaviesNia Davies (issue 5)'s pamphlet Then Spree was published by Salt in 2012. As well as her work with Literature Across Frontiers her current projects include editing the journal Poems in Which with Amy Key, writing blogs and reviews, research into the relationship of listening and sound to poetry and ongoing attempts to learn Turkish. She was born in Sheffield, has lived in Wales and is now based in London. http://niadavies.wordpress.com

Amy EvansAmy Evans (issue 5) grew up on the Isle of Wight and lives in London. Her first pamphlet, Collecting Shells, was published by Oystercatcher Press in 2011. Her most recent book is Viersomes, with Nat Raha, Frances Kruk and Becky Cremin (Veer Books, 2012). Amy’s poetry and montages appear in UK and US magazines such as Jacket, Shearsman, M58, and Women’s Study Quarterly, and in the anthologies Dear World & Everyone In It (Bloodaxe, 2013), Voice/Absence/Presence (University of Technology Sydney ePress, 2013), In Place of Love and Country (Crater Press, 2013), and Sea Pie (Oystercatcher, 2012). Amy is completing a PhD in twentieth-century American poetry at King’s College London, where she has taught as a Visiting Lecturer. Amy co-edited The Unruly Garden: Robert Duncan & Eric Mottram, Letters & Essays (Peter Lang, 2007) and is currently editing the letters of H.D. and Robert Duncan. She works as a classical singer. 
 
Jessica FarquharCirca 1982, in a little Louisville neighborhood called Buechel, Jessica Farquhar (issue 4) learned how to write her name at the counter of Fanelli’s, an ice cream parlor owned by her grandparents, which was regulared also by Muhammad Ali. You can find her work in recent or future issues of Catch Up, The Lumberyard, Word Hotel, and Sycamore Review.

G13G13 (issue 4) is a loose collective of Berlin-based poets, founded in 2009. The members, all between 20 and 30 years old, meet regularly to present and discuss new works, and also contribute to a blog. After taking part in numerous readings and a workshop to promote young authors, the group made their first joint appearance in print in a special issue of the magazine Belletristik in 2011; a G13 anthology will be published in Fall 2012 by luxbooks. For two tours in Germany and Switzerland and an appearance at the Zeitkunst festival, the group worked together with directors and musicians to develop a stage program that integrates reading and performance.
Members featured in issue 4: Max Czollek, Paula Glamann, Maria Natt, Can Pestanli, Friederike Scheffler, Linus Westheuser, & Ilja Winther

J.A. GayeJ.A. Gaye (issue 4) is a preschool and elementary physical and special education teacher near Benton, Missouri, where he lives with Alfred, his Siberian Husky. Recently, he has become something of an amateur recurve bow archer. He appears in Super Arrow and Everyday Genius and can also be found in theDIAGRAM and Arch.

Dai GeorgeDai George (issue 5) is a poet from Cardiff, currently living in London. His work has been published in the Salt Book of Younger Poets and the Best British Poetry series. Later this year his first collection, The Claims Office, will come out on Seren.

Paula GlamannPaula Glamann (issue 4) b. 1988 in Kiel. Studies sociology in Berlin. Publications in magazines (Der Greif, Belletristik).

Rawley GrauRawley Grau (issue 3),originally from Baltimore, Md., has been living in Ljubljana, Slovenia, since 2001. He holds a master’s degree in Slavic languages and literatures from the University of Toronto. His translations from Slovene include a book of essays by Aleš Debeljak (The Hidden Handshake: National Identity and Europe in the Post-Communist World, 2004), a collection of short stories by Boris Pintar (Family Parables, 2009), and a novel by Vlado Žabot (The Succubus, 2010). He is currently preparing a book of translations of the poetry of the nineteenth-century Russian poet Yevgeny Baratynsky, which is due out from Ugly Duckling Presse in 2013. Author photo (c) Joy Connelly.

Dina HardyDina Hardy (issue 1), recipient of a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she attended on a Maytag Fellowship. She was a finalist for the Poets & Writers’ New Voices in California Contest, named one of Los Angeles’s Newer Voices and published in Meridian’s Best New Poets anthology. Her work appears in numerous journals and anthologies, including Agni, Black Warrior Review, POOL and Southeast Review.

Matt HartMatt Hart (issue 2)'s most recent books of poems are Wolf Face (H_NGM_N BKS, 2010) and Light-Headed (BlazeVOX, 2011). His next book, Sermons and Lectures Both Blank and Relentless, will be published in 2012 by Typecast Publishing.  A co-founder and the editor-in-chief of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking & Light Industrial Safety, he lives in Cincinnati where he teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

Emily HaslerEmily Hasler (issue 5) was born in Felixstowe, Suffolk and – despite her best efforts – currently lives and works in London. Her poems have featured in magazines and anthologies, including The Salt Book of Younger Poets and Dear World (Bloodaxe, 2013). Her pamphlet Natural Histories was published by Salt in 2011.

Kristin HatchKristin Hatch (issue 1) has an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and currently lives in San Francisco. Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Bat City Review; Black Warrior Review; Court Green; Fence; and Forklift, Ohio.

Brian HenryBrian Henry (issue 3) is the author of eight books of poetry—Astronaut (short-listed for the Forward Prize), American Incident, Graft, Quarantine, The Stripping Point, Wings Without Birds, Lessness, and Doppelgänger. His work has been translated into Croatian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, and Spanish. His translation of Tomaž Šalamun’s Woods and Chalices appeared from Harcourt in 2008, and his translation of Aleš Šteger’s The Book of Things appeared as a Lannan Foundation selection from BOA Editions in 2010 and won the 2011 Best Translated Book Award. Henry’s poetry and translations have received numerous honors, including an NEA fellowship, a Howard Foundation grant, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, the Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize, the Cecil B. Hemley Memorial Award, the George Bogin Memorial Award, and a Slovenian Academy of Arts and Sciences grant.  Author photo (c) 2011 Susan Worsham.

Alec HershmanAlec Hershman (issue 2) lives in St. Louis where he teaches at the Stevens Institute of Business and Arts and at the Center for Humanities at Washington University. Other poems can be found in recent issues of DIAGRAM, The Sierra Nevada Review, Lake Effect, Washington Square, and Existere.

Sarah HoweSarah Howe (issue 5) was born in Hong Kong in 1983, before moving to England as a child. During 2012-13, she is the holder of the Harper-Wood Studentship for English Poetry from St John's College, Cambridge. Her debut pamphlet of poems, A Certain Chinese Encyclopedia, was published in Tall-lighthouse's Pilot series in 2009. She won an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 2010, and is a former Foyle Young Poet of the Year. Her poems have appeared widely in UK magazines, in anthologies such as The Salt Book of Younger Poets (2011), Best British Poetry (2012), Dear World & Everyone in it (2013), and on BBC Radio. Having spent a year as a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard, she returned to Cambridge University to research and teach Renaissance English literature. Her website is sarahhowepoetry.com.

Thomas KaneRaised in Nashville, TN, Thomas Kane (issue 3) received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and is in the process of completing a PhD in creative writing at the University of Missouri. His poems have appeared in Cerise, McSweeney’s and Sou’Wester. He edited and co-translated Tomaž Šalamun’s There’s the Hand and There’s the Arid Chair (Counterpath, 2009).

Claudia KeelanClaudia Keelan (issue 5) is the author of 6 books of poems, most recently Missing Her from New Issues Press. Truth of My Songs: Poems of the Trobairitz will be published by Omnidawn in 2015.

Avram KlineAvram Kline (issue 2) attends the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at
UMass-Amherst. Since taking leave of New York City where he is a
public high school English teacher, he has baked tons of biscuits. He
also plays washbasin bass for the Cunninghams, a bluegrass quartet in
Northampton. His poems appear or are forthcoming in Jellyfish, The GC
Advocate, the Common, and Prick of the Spindle.

Miklavž KomeljMiklavž Komelj (issue 3), born in 1973, is a Slovene poet, essayist, and art historian, who lives in Ljubljana. He received a doctoral degree in art history from the University of Ljubljana in 2002 with the dissertation “The Meanings of Nature in Tuscan Painting in the First Half of the 14th Century.” He has published seven books of poetry, a collection of essays entitled The Necessity of Poetry (Nujnost poezije, 2010), and a study of the art of the Yugoslav partisans in World War II, How Should We Think about Partisan Art? (Kako misliti partizansko umetnost?, 2009). He has also published Slovene translations of works by Fernando Pessoa (2003, 2007), Pier Paolo Pasolini (2005, 2007), and César Vallejo (2011).

Chas. Kuo-SpeckChas. Kuo-Speck (issue 1) is a musician, writer, and painter living in Tucson with his wife.  He is a graduate from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.  His poems have appeared in The Colorado Review, Pool, and Thermos.

Gregory LawlessGregory Lawless (issue 2) is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a two time Pushcart nominee. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming from such places as Artifice, Best of the Net 2007, Gulf Stream, The National Poetry Review, Sonora Review, Third Coast, and Zoland Poetry. BlazeVOX published his first collection of poems, I Thought I Was New Here, in 2009. He lives in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Margaret LeMay-LewisMargaret LeMay-Lewis (issue 4) attended Barnard College and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her poems have appeared in the Asian Pacific American Journal, Another Chicago Magazine, The Cortland Review, Little Village, and elsewhere. Her work was shortlisted for the 2007 Four Way Books Levis Prize and the 2011 Discovery/the Boston Review Poetry Prize. She lives in Iowa City.

Phillis LevinPhillis Levin (issue 3) is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Mercury (2001) and May Day (2008), both from Penguin, and is the editor of The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English (Penguin, 2001). Her honors include the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award, a Fulbright Scholar Award to Slovenia, the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, the Richard Hugo Prize from Poetry Northwest, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Levin is a professor of English and the poet-in-residence at Hofstra University. She lives in Manhattan. Author photo (c) Sheila McKinnon.

Roddy LumsdenRoddy Lumsden (issue 5) lives in London where he teaches privately and for The Poetry School. Mischief Night: New & Selected Poems was published by Bloodaxe in 2004, and his most recent collections are Third Wish Wasted (2009) and Terrific Melancholy (2011). He is also the editor of Identity Parade: New British and Irish poets (Bloodaxe, 2010) and Series Editor of The Best British Poetry. He is Poetry Editor for Salt Publishing. He was awarded the Bess Hokin Prize by the Poetry Foundation in 2009. 

Edward MackayEdward Mackay (issue 5) is a poet living and working in east London. His work has been published in journals and anthologies. His poetry was shortlisted for the inaugural Picador Poetry Prize (2011), commended in the Emerge Escalator competition (2010) and shortlisted for an Eric Gregory Award (2009). His debut chapbook, Swarming, was published by Salt in 2012. 

Kristi MaxwellKristi Maxwell (issue 4) is the author of Re- (Ahsahta, 2011), Hush Sessions (Saturnalia, 2009), and Realm Sixty-four (Ahsahta, 2008). She lives in summer and fall mostly.

Christopher MerrillChristopher Merrill (issue 3) has published four collections of poetry, including Brilliant Water, and Watch Fire, for which he received the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets; translations of Aleš Debeljak’s Anxious Moments and The City and the Child; several edited volumes, among them, The Forgotten Language: Contemporary Poets and Nature and From the Faraway Nearby: Georgia O’Keeffe as Icon; and five books of nonfiction, The Grass of Another Country: A Journey Through the World of Soccer, The Old Bridge: The Third Balkan War and the Age of the Refugee, Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars, Things of the Hidden God: Journey to the Holy Mountain, and The Tree of the Doves: Ceremony, Expedition, War. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages, his journalism appears in many publications, and his awards include a knighthood in arts and letters from the French government. He has held the William H. Jenks Chair in Contemporary Letters at the College of the Holy Cross, and now directs the International Writing Program at The University of Iowa. Author photo (c) Ram Devineni.

Jennifer MooreJennifer Moore (issue 4) has poetry published or forthcoming in Barrow Street, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Best New Poets and elsewhere, and criticism in Jacket2 and The Offending Adam. She holds degrees from the University of Colorado and the University of Illinois at Chicago, and is an assistant professor of creative writing at Ohio Northern University.

Maria NattMaria Natt (issue 4) b. 1988, lives in Berlin. Publications in magazines (Belletristik) and anthologies.

Can PestanliCan Pestanli (issue 4) b. 1980 in Kassel, lives happily in Berlin.

April PierceApril Pierce (issue 5) is pursuing a DPhil at Oxford University, where she is president of the Oxford University Poetry Society. In the past she was a ghostwriter of romance novels, and has written for The Huffington Post, The Oxonian Review, Oxford Theatre Review, The Critical Flame, and the NYC Examiner, among others. She has published poetry under different names in obscure places. One of her short stories, "Douglas," will be published through Union Books in the near future.

Nate PrittsNate Pritts (issue 2) has a new book of poems, Sweet Nothing, coming out in 2011 from Lowbrow Press. He is the founder & principal editor of H_NGM_N, an online journal & small press. Find him online at www.natepritts.com.

Peter RichardsPeter Richards (issue 3) is the author of Oubliette (Wave Books 2001), Nude Siren (Wave Books 2003), and Helsinki (Action Books 2011).

Boyer RickelBoyer Rickel (issue 4) is the author of remanence (Parlor Press, 2008), Taboo, a memoir in essays (Wisconsin, 1999), arreboles (Wesleyan, 1991), and a poetry chapbook, reliquary (Seven Kitchens Press, 2009). His poems have been published in such online and print journals as Antennae, CUE, Free Verse, The Gettysburg Review, The Laurel Review, No Tell Motel, Seneca Review and Volt. Information on these and other publications can be found at www.boyerrickel.com. Recipient of poetry fellowships from the NEA and Arizona Commission on the Arts, he has taught in the U. of Arizona Creative Program since 1991.

Ben RogersBen Rogers (issue 5) grew up in Surrey and now lives in London.  His poetry has previously appeared in 14, Magma, Introducing Art, Popshot, and Succour.

Matthew RohrerMatthew Rohrer (issue 3) is the author of 7 books of poems, most recently Destroyer and Preserver, published by Wave Books. One of his tattoos has been featured in two different books of literary tattoos. He lives in Brooklyn.


Amelia RosselliAmelia Rosselli (issue 2) (1930-1996) is one of the most influential voices in Italian twentieth century poetry. Her books of poetry include Variazioni Belliche (1964), Serie Ospedaliera (1969), and Documento (1976). Famous for her multilingualism, Rosselli wrote in Italian and English and occasionally in French. Her English poems have been collected as Sleep-Sonno (1992). English translations of Rosselli’s Italian writing include War Variations, (Green Integer, 2006, trans. Lucia Re and Paul Vangelisti) and The Dragonfly (Chelsea Editions, 2009, trans. Deborah Woodward and Giuseppe Leporace).

Henk RossouwHenk Rossouw (issue 2) graduated in 2011 from the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he currently works as a lecturer in college writing. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Boston Review, The Massachusetts Review, Tin House, The Threepenny Review, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. In 2009 he gave a reading in Times Square as one of the winners of the Poetry Society of America's Bright Lights Big Verse contest.

Tomaž ŠalamunTomaž Šalamun (issue 3) lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In the spring semester of 2011, he taught at The Michener Center for Writers at The University of Texas. His recent books translated into English are Woods and Chalices (Harcourt 2008), Poker (Ugly Duckling Presse, second edition 2008), There's the Hand and There's the Arid Chair (Counterpath Press, 2009), and The Blue Tower (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011).

Friederike SchefflerFriederike Scheffler (issue 4) b. 1985 in Berlin. Publications in magazines (Wortwuchs, Belletristik) and anthologies.

Morgan SchuldtMorgan Lucas Schuldt (issue 4) died of complications from cystic fibrosis on Jan. 30, 2012, twelve days before his 34th birthday. Morgan earned an MFA in Poetry and an MA in Literature at the University of Arizona. He completed two book-length collections, Erros (Parlor Press, forthcoming) and Verge (Parlor Press, 2007). He also published three chapbooks, (as vanish, unespecially) (Flying Guillotine Press, 2012), L=u=N=G=U=A=G=E (Scantily Clad Press, 2009) and Otherhow (Kitchen Press, 2007). A writer of criticism, reviews and interviews, he was a mentor to many poets and a dedicated enthusiast of the work he loved, co-founding and editing CUE (A Journal of Prose Poetry), as well as editing CUE Editions, a chapbook series. Author photo (c) B. Cully.

Kaethe SchwehnKaethe Schwehn (issue 2) studied creative writing at the University of Montana and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.  You can find her poems in places like Crazyhorse and jubilat and Minnesota Review.  If you want to read a story she wrote, you could look in an anthology called Fiction on a Stick (Milkweed, 2009).  If you want to read a bad unfinished novel she wrote, you could look in her bottom right desk drawer.  If you want to read an unfinished non-fiction book about a village and a war and the end of love, you could look inside her head.  You're quite the voyeur, aren't you?

Andy StallingsAndy Stallings (issue 1) lives in New Orleans with Melissa Dickey and their two children, Esme and Curran. He teaches creative writing at Tulane University, and is an avid baseball fan.

Ray SuccreRay Succre (issue 4) is currently an undergraduate at the University of Iowa. He is married, has an awesome little boy, and is in his mid-thirties. He has a handful of novels in print and his poetry can be found in hundreds of publications spanning a variety of nice countries. Now he has decided to go to college. He does most things alarmingly backward.

Mathias SvalinaMathias Svalina (issue 4) is the author of one book of prose, I Am A Very Productive Entrepreneur (Mud Luscious Press, 2011), & two books of poetry, Destruction Myth (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2009) & The Explosions (Subito, 2012). With Alisa Heinzman & Zachary Schomburg, he co-edits Octopus Books.

Michael Thomas TarenMichael Thomas Taren (issue 3) exists.

Diana ThowDiana Thow (issue 2) holds an MFA in literary translation from the University of Iowa. She has published her work in The Iowa Review, Mare Nostrum, 91st Meridian and Words Without Borders. She received a 2009-2010 Fulbright grant to Italy for her work on Amelia Rosselli.  She currently lives in Berkeley, where she is pursuing a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature.

Trobairitz The trobairitz (issue 5) were Occitan female troubadors from the 12th and 13th centuries, and the first known female composers of secular music in the West. 

M.A. VizsolyiM.A. Vizsolyi (issue 1) grew up in Pennsylvania. His first book of poems, The Lamp with Wings, was selected by Ilya Kaminsky for the National Poetry Series, and is forthcoming in the fall 2011.  His poems have appeared in many journals, including Poetry International, 6x6, Slice Magazine, and BOMB.  He teaches ice hockey and ice skating lessons in Central Park, and lives in Brooklyn.

Mark WaldronMark Waldron (issue 5) was born in New York but has lived in the UK since he was a few weeks old. His first collection, The Brand New Dark, was published by Salt in 2008, his second, The Itchy Sea, came out in September 2011. His work appears in Identity Parade: New British and Irish Poets (Bloodaxe 2010) and Best British Poetry 2012. He lives in London with his wife and son. 

Linus WestheuserLinus Westheuser (issue 4) b. 1989 in Berlin, currently studies sociology in Berlin, after living in Oldenburg and London. Poetry collaborations with Tristan Marquardt since 2011. Publications in magazines (Bella Triste, Wortwuchs, randnummer, poet, Belletristik) and anthologies.

Ilja WintherIlja Winther (issue 4) b. 1989 in Elmshorn, lives in Berlin. Writes poetry and dramatic works. Publications in magazines (Belletristik) and anthologies.

Joseph P. WoodJoseph P. Wood (issue 2) is the author of two full collections of poetry, Fold of the Map (Salmon Poetry) and I & We (CW Books), as well as five chapbooks. Recent poems or essays have appeared in Boston Review, diode, Hotel Amerika, RealPoetik, Verse, among others. He’s held residencies at Djerassi Resident Artists Program and at Artcroft, and teaches creative writing, English and American literature. His website is www.josephpatrickwood.com.

Greg WrennGreg Wrenn (issue 1)’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, The Yale Review, Pleiades, Boston Review, FIELD, and elsewhere. His chapbook, Off the Fire Road (Green Tower Press, 2009), won the 2008 Midwest Chapbook Series Contest and features a long poem about a man who travels to Brazil to be surgically transformed into a centaur. Currently he is a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University.