sam sax is a Fellow at The Michener Center for Writers + the associate poetry editor at Bat City Review. He's the two time Bay Area Unified Grand Slam Champion + author of the chapbooks, A Guide to Undressing Your Monsters (Button Poetry 2014) + sad boy / detective (Winner of the Black Lawrence's 2014 Black River Chapbook Prize). His poems are forthcoming in Boston Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Paris-American, Indiana Review, Normal School, Salt Hill, Rattle, + other journals. He's the recipient of a 2015 NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry.