Matt Sumpter is an MFA candidate in Poetry at The Ohio State University, where he works as an Associate Poetry Editor for The Journal. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and an AWP Intro Journals Award, and he recently won the Crab Orchard Review Special Issues Feature Award in Poetry. Other work has appeared or is forthcoming in Boulevard, 32 Poems, Cincinnati Review, West Branch Wired, and elsewhere.