Dan “Sully” Sullivan holds an MFA/MA from Indiana University. He is a recipient of the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Poetry Award and the Indiana University Writer in South Asia Award. His first book of poems, The Blue Line Home (2014), was published by EM-Press. Respect the Mic: Celebrating 20 Years of Poetry from a Chicagoland High School, edited by Hanif Abdurraqib, Franny Choi, Dan “Sully” Sullivan, and Peter Kahn, is forthcoming from Penguin Workshop.