Troy Varvel is from Nacogdoches, TX, where he earned a BFA and MA in creative writing and English from Stephen F. Austin State University. Currently, he is a MFA candidate at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, where he is an assistant editor for Crab Orchard Review. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Cape Rock: Poetry, Cigar City Poetry Journal, Constellations, Driftwood Press, Psaltery and Lyre, and That Literary Review, among others.