Nick Courtright is the author of Punchline (Gold Wake Press), a National Poetry Award finalist called "nothing short of a knockout" by Boston Review editor Timothy Donnelly. His writing has appeared in The Southern Review, Massachusetts Review, Kenyon Review Online, and The Iowa Review, among many others, as well as in a chapbook, Elegy for the Builder’s Wife (Blue Hour Press). An Akron native, he now lives in Austin, where he’s Interviews Editor of the Austinist, and teaches English, Humanities, and Philosophy. Find him on the internet at nickcourtright.com.