Aaron Apps is a PhD student in English Literature at Brown University. He also holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Minnesota. He is the author of DEAR HERCULINE (Ahsahta Press, 2014), and COMPOS(T) MENTIS (BlazeVOX books, 2012), and his book of hybrid-genre prose, INTERSEX, is forthcoming from Tarpaulin Sky Press. His writing has appeared in numerous journals, including Pleiades, LIT, Washington Square Review, Puerto del Sol, Los Angeles Review, and Carolina Quarterly.