Stephen Lackaye’s manuscript, Claims, has been a semi-finalist or finalist for prizes such as the Crab Orchard First Book Award, Elixir Press Open Competition, and Patricia Bibby Award. Other poems can be found in recent issues of Cave Wall, The Pinch, Los Angeles Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Sow’s Ear, and Valparaiso Poetry Review. He has his MFA from Johns Hopkins, and lives outside Portland, OR.