Tom C. Hunley is the author of eight full-length poetry collections, eight chapbooks, and two textbooks. He also wrote You’re Not Alone, a short film produced by Forerunner TV., Inc. and Awesomistic, a grant-funded short film produced by Lindsey Entertainment. He and Dr. Alexandria Peary co-edited Creative Writing Pedagogies for the Twenty-First Century (Southern Illinois University Press, 2015). He is currently working on a novel that mashes up elements of The Breakfast Club and A Clockwork Orange as well as a memoir in flash and verse. Tom holds degrees from University of Washington (BA), Eastern Washington University (MFA), and Florida State University (Ph.D.), where he held the Kingsbury fellowship. He is a professor of English and Creative Writing at Western Kentucky University, where he has taught since 2003. He has been married to Ralaina since 1996, and they raised four children together.