Connor M. Bjotvedt received his Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Spalding University. He was awarded the Charles E. Bull Creative Writing Scholarship for Poetry by Northern Arizona University where he received his Bachelor of Arts in English, Literature, and Creative Writing. His work has appeared in Rain Taxi, Cathexis Northwest Press, the Santa Fe Literary Review, the Haiku Journal, Three Line Poetry, Straylight Literary Magazine, and The Wayfarer, among others. His first collection, A Contemporary Portrait of the Southwest, is published by Unsolicited Press.