About the Author

Neil Carpathios is the author of three full-length poetry collections: Playground of Flesh (Main Street Rag, 2006), At the Axis of Imponderables (winner of the Quercus Review Press Book Award, 2007), and Beyond the Bones (FutureCycle Press, 2009). Three of his chapbooks have won national competitions, most recently The Function of Sadness (Slipstream Press, 2015). An anthology he edited, Every River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio (Ohio University Press), was released in 2015. He is an associate professor of English at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio.