Jason Morphew started life in a mobile home in Pike County, Arkansas. The Washington Post says his full-length collection dead boy is “presented with an edginess and sharp intelligence that makes the poems pop.” Morphew’s poems and essays have appeared in The Daily Beast, Los Angeles Review of Books, Seneca Review, Bellevue Literary Review, and Lana Turner, among other journals and newspapers. Morphew lives with his family in Los Angeles and teaches at Stanford Online High School. His second full-length collection of poems, Eject City, is forthcoming from Poets Wear Prada in September 2024.