Austin Sarles was born in Dallas, Texas to Gary and Angie Sarles. He writes short fiction and poetry typically about innocence, loss, and resurrection, although he also frequently likes to play with the fluidity of memory. He considers his greatest inspirations to be Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats, and John Banville, among other prominent Irish authors and poets. He hopes to be thought of as an elegiac poet and often worries his subtlety is lost on readers. Read with a careful eye, and open your mind to more than one interpretation of his works. He often jokes he intentionally writes multip...