CHUCK CARLISE was born in Canton, Ohio, on the first Flag Day of the Jimmy Carter Era and has lived in a dozen states and two continents since. He is the author of A Broken Escalator Still Isn't the Stairs (Concrete Wolf Poetry Series) and Casual Insomniac (Bateau, "Boom Contest" winner). His work has garnered six Pushcart Prize nominations, and has been awarded writing fellowships or grants from the Mitchell Foundation, InPrint, the Tin House Summer Writer's Workshop, Wildacres, and the Writer's Colony at Dairy Hollow, as well as two Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prizes. His poems and essays appear in Southern Review, Pleiades, DIAGRAM, Quarterly West, Beloit Poetry Journal, Hayden's Ferry Review, Southeast Review, and elsewhere.