Chuck Carlise was born in Canton, Ohio. He is also the author of A Broken Escalator Still Isn't the Stairs (2011 Concrete Wolf Chapbook Series winner). His poems and essays appear in Southern Review, Pleiades, DIAGRAM, Quarterly West, Beloit Poetry Journal, Hayden's Ferry Review, Southeast Review and others. He is currently a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Houston, where he has been Nonfiction Ediotr of the journal Gulf Coast and an instructor with U.H. and Writers in the Schools.