Jay Butler

Jay Butler is a poet and writer with degrees in History & Creative Writing from Appalachian State University and an MFA from Portland State University, where he was the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Award, as well as other awards and scholarships. Through ecopoetics as a creative and critical practice, he enjoys getting wrapped up in the sonic entanglements of language. Currently serving as co-editor in chief of Portland Review, his creative work has been featured in Poets.org, Fourteen Hills, Appalachian Heritage, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, among other literary journals.