Michael Mlekoday

Michael Mlekoday is the author of one book of poetry, The Dead Eat Everything (Kent State U., 2014), chosen by Dorianne Laux as winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize. A National Poetry Slam Champion, Mlekoday was a founding editor at Button Poetry and currently serves as Poetry Editor of Ruminate Magazine. Their recent poems appear in Third Coast, The Southampton Review, Sonora Review, and Hunger Mountain, and their work has been translated into Polish. They live in the Putah Creek watershed of California, where they hang out with the plants and teach classes on hip-hop, Gothic literature, and Transcendentalism.