About the Author

CHUCK CARLISE was born in Canton, Ohio, on the first Flag Day of the Jimmy Carter Administration, and has lived in a dozen states and two continents since. He is the author of two award-winning chapbooks - A Broken Escalator Still Isn't the Stairs (Concrete Wolf 2011) and Casual Insomniac (Bateau 2011) - and his poems and essays appear in Pleiades, Southern Review, DIAGRAM, Hayden's Ferry Review, and Best New Poets in both 2012 and 2014. He completed his PhD at the University of Houston in 2012, where he was awarded InPrint/Paul Verlaine Poetry Prize, and was Nonfiction Editor of the journal, Gulf Coast. He is currently a Lecturer in the Writing Program at UC-Santa Cruz. (www.chuckcarlise.com)