Michael Hurley is from Pittsburgh. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, Poetry Northwest, The Cincinnati Review, Spillway, Sugar House Review, The Massachusetts Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Five Points, Copper Nickel, jubilat, Prairie Schooner, FIELD, Blackbird, Guernica, and elsewhere. His chapbook, Wooden Boys, is available from Seven Kitchens Press.