Colby Cotton is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. A graduate of the MFA Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, he is a recipient of scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. His work appears or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, the Iowa Review, Cincinnati Review, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, Copper Nickel, Bennington Review, and Best New Poets, among others. Originally from upstate New York, he lives in Los Angeles.