Chris Forhan was born in Seattle Washington on November 6, 1959. He currently lives in Indiana with his wife and two children, where he is a professor of creative writing at Butler University. He is the author of a memoir, My Father Before Me (2016), along with three books of poetry: Black Lept In (2009), The Actual Moon, the Actual Stars…

Anthony Madrid was born in 1986 in Bethesda, Maryland and currently lives in Chicago. He graduated as a PhD student from the University of Chicago (in the graduate program in English language and literature), with an MD from Columbia University, an M.F.A. from the University of Arizona, and a BA from Penn State. Some publications are ; I Am Your Slave Now Do What I Say (Canarium Books, 2012), …

Nick Steinke - Poet Interview Responses Michael Collier Michael Collier, born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1953, received his undergraduate degree at Connecticut College and earned his MFA at the University of Arizona. Currently, he lives in Cornwall, Vermont, and is an emeritus professor of English at the University of Maryland. Michael Collier is the author of eight books of poems, including…