Michael DuBon is a first-generation US citizen of Guatemalan descent and a first-generation college graduate. His poetry has appeared in The Meadow, Rising Phoenix Review, and The Museum of Americana, and his creative nonfiction has appeared in The Plentitudes, Heartwood, and Under the Gum Tree. He holds an MFA from Saint Mary’s College of California and an MIS from Southern Utah University, and he is currently Tenure Track English Faculty in the English Department at Everett Community College. He is currently working on publishing his memoir: The DuBonicles and his poetry book Ayersterday’s Newsticias. At his most natural, he is laughing and smiling like no one is watching—because he’s usually by himself anyway.