Ryan Collins is the author of three chapbooks, most recently *Dear Twin Falls* (H_NGM_N, 2013). His poems have appeared in *American Letters & Commentary*; *Black Clock*; *Columbia Poetry Review*; *DIAGRAM*; *Forklift, Ohio*; *Handsome*; *iO: A Journal of New American Poetry*; *PEN Poetry Series*; *Spork*; *Transom*; and many other places. He is the Executive Director of the Midwest Writing Center and an English instructor at St. Ambrose University and Scott Community College. He plays drums in The Multiple Cat and curates the SPECTRA Poetry Reading Series in Rock Island, IL, where he lives.