Michael Yost is a poet and essayist living in rural New Hampshire with his wife and children. He is earning his M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. His essays and poems have been published in places like the University Bookman, Dappled Things, Crisis magazine, the St. Austin Review, the Brazen Head, and Hearth & Field. These can be read at poetryofmichaelyost.com.