Tyler Robert Sheldon is the author of seven other poetry collections including Everything is Ghosts (Finishing Line Press, 2024) and When to Ask for Rain (Spartan Press, 2021), a Birdy Poetry Prize Finalist. He is Editor-in-Chief of MockingHeart Review and an editor at Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Pop Culture and Pedagogy, and his work has appeared in Dialogue, The Midwest Quarterly, The Los Angeles Review, Ninth Letter, Pleiades, Slant, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and other places. His research interests include poetry and poetics, comics studies, pedagogy, and World War II. A Pushcart Prize nominee and winner of the Charles E. Walton Essay Award as well as several awards for his teaching, Sheldon earned his PhD at LSU and his MFA at McNeese State University. He spends his days teaching, writing, playing guitar, and catering to the whims of his impish cats. View his work at tylerrobertsheldon.com.