Clayton T. Michaels is a two-time Pushcart-nominated poet and author of Watermark, which won the 2010 qarrtsiluni chapbook contest and was published by Phonecia Press in August 2010. He has been a featured poet at the online journal Anti-, and his poems have appeared in The Prism Review, >kill author, Makeout Creek, Alice Blue and LIES/ISLE, among others. He currently teaches at Indiana University South Bend, where he is also an assistant editor for 42 Miles Press.