Steve Kistulentz is the author of two collections of poetry, Little Black Daydream (2012) and The Luckless Age (2010). Kistulentz was born in Washington, DC. He earned a BA in English from the College of William and Mary, an MA from the Johns Hopkins University, an MFA from the Iowa Writer's Workshop, and a PhD from the Florida State University. His narrative nonfiction--mostly on the subject of popular culture--has appeared widely in journals. Kistulentz's poems work against the pervasive influence of nostalgia, occupying the space between histories; they often focus on what Yeats called "counter-truth," the gap between the commonplace understanding of an event and its more nuanced or even imagined reinterpretation. Mike Krutel, writing in the American Book Review, compared the "lived-in landscapes" of The Luckless Age's poems to John Berryman's dream songs. Kistulentz's honors include the Benjamin Saltman Award for The Luckless Age, as well as fellowship support from Writers at Work, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and an individual award from the Mississippi Arts Commission. He has taught at the Johns Hopkins University; the University of Iowa, where he was the Joseph and Ursil Callan Scholar; and the Florida State University, where he was an Edward and Marie C. Kingsbury Fellow for Excellence in Thought. He currently teaches at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, where he directs the Millsaps Visiting Writers Series.