Chad Lowther has served as Coeditor of Barzakh.net since Fall 2011. He currently lives in Albany, NY, where he is working towards an MS in Information Studies and a creative MA in English at the University at Albany. His fiction has been published in the Crack the Spine 2013 Anthology. He has performed with the Albany Poets, the deep-cleveland Poets, at the Sidewalk Cafe in the Lower East Side, at the Bowery Poetry Club, and was once asked to leave a bar for reading poetry to a man wearing a cowboy hat.