Joshua Butts, who received his doctorate from the University of Cincinnati, and degrees in English from The Ohio State University, has taught at Columbus College of Art & Design since 2009. He teaches courses in literature, creative writing, composition, and theory and criticism. Butts has attended residencies at Byrdcliffe and the VCCA, was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers Conference, and has attended the Home School. His poems have appeared recently in Pleiades, Southern Humanities Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, and Blackbird. His first poetry collection, New to the Lost Coast, was published by Gold Wake Press in 2015.