Matt Rotando has a B.A. in English Literature from Duke University, an MFA in Poetry from the City University of New York (Brooklyn College), M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Arizona and is a Fulbright Fellow. He is the author of two books of poems, The Comeback’s Exoskeleton (Upset Press, 2008), and Hail (forthcoming in 2014, also from Upset Press). He is a professor of English and Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College, and a proud former member of POG, the collective of artists and poets in Tucson, Arizona.