Jakob VanLammeren earned his MFA in poetry from Bennington College, and currently lives in Chicago, Illinois where he works as an archivist. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in burntdistrict, Chicago IRL, diode, Explosion Proof Magazine, Gigantic Sequins, Hanging Loose magazine, and Pebble Lake Review. Visit him at http://jakobrvanlammeren.tumblr.com.