Madness

*For those interested in how pleasure, crisis, wonder, disappointment, love, and fantasy are written into our forms for living
*Author is a PhD Student in English at the University of Chicago
*Author¿s poetry and essays have appeared in Jacket2, Entropy, at The Chicago Review, and LitHub
*Author worked as a sound engineer and administrative assistant for Kelly Writer¿s House in Philadelphia for several years
*Finalist for Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry 2020 for Losing Miami
*O, Miami Advisory Board 2019
*Semi-Finalist in Tarpaulin Sky 2017 Book Prize for Jazzercise is a Language
*Kelly Writers House Junior Fellow 2017
*Winner of Timeless Infinite Light TRACT Contest 2015 for Oil and Candle