Michael Dwayne Smith
Michael Dwayne Smith is a California desert native and graduate of the creative writing program at U.C. Riverside. He's the poetry editor at Cease, Cows Literary Journal and has been a professor since long after the cows came home. His work appears/is forthcoming in journals like burntdistrict, Word Riot, decomP, >kill author, Heavy Feather Review, Monkeybicycle, and The Cortland Review. He lives near a ghost town with his wife and rescued animals--follow him at http://michaeldwaynesmith.com