A Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry, J.P. Grasser attended Sewanee: The University of the South and received his MFA in poetry from Johns Hopkins University. He is currently a doctoral student in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Utah. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in AGNI, Best New Poets, Cincinnati Review, West Branch Wired, The Journal, and Ninth Letter Online, among others. For more information, visit www.jpgrasser.com.