BJ Soloy is the author of Birth Center in Corporate Woods, Our Pornography & other disaster songs, and the chapbook Selected Letters. From St. Louis, MO, he's lived in Lawrence, KS, Chicago, Kansas City, and Missoula, MT. He's taught at a load of places, mostly community colleges, and just saw a coyote this morning. With his partner, son, and too many domesticated familiars, he now lives and dies in Des Moines, IA, home of the Whatever.