Bryan D. Dietrich is the author of a book-length study on comics, Wonder Woman Unbound, and six books of poems, Krypton Nights, Universal Monsters, Love Craft, Prime Directive, The Assumption, and The Monstrance. He is also co-editor of Drawn to Marvel, an anthology of superhero poetry. He has published poems in The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Harvard Review, Yale Review, Asimov's, Weird Tales, and many other journals. Having won The Paris Review Poetry Prize, a "Discovery"/The Nation Award, a Writers at Work Fellowship, the Isotope Editors' Prize, an Asimov's Readers' Choice Award, and the Eve of St. Agnes Prize, Bryan has been nominated for both the Pushcart and the Pulitzer. Professor of English at Newman University, Bryan lives in Wichita, Kansas with his wife, Gina, his son, Nick, and three cats...one of them evil.