Alex Cigale ’s poems appeared recently in Colorado, Global City, Hamilton Stone, St. Ann’s, and Green Mountains reviews, Hanging Loose, Poemeleon, The Potomac, Venereal Kittens, and Zoland Poetry and are forthcoming in Eleven Eleven, Gargoyle, Many Mountains Moving, North American Review, Quarter After Eight, Tar River Poetry Review and 32 Poems. He was born in Chernovtsy, Ukraine and lives in New York City.