John Poch is an award-winning poet with eight collections of poetry published, including The Future of Love (Slant Books). He serves as a Professor of English at Grace College, where he co- directs the Winona Christian Writer’s Conference. He earned an MFA in Poetry from the University of Florida and a PhD in English from the University of North Texas. He was the inaugural Colgate University Creative Writing Fellow and served as the founding editor of the award- winning 32 Poems Magazine. He is currently the series editor for the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Paris Review, Yale Review, Iowa Review, Agni, and other literary magazines.