Todd Melicker regularly communes with the fog of the Outer Richmond of San Francisco. He is the author of the chapbooks the immaculate autopsy (Achiote Press) and king & queen (LRL Editions) as well as the collections RENDEZVOUS, winner of the second annual Black Box Prize (Rescue Press, 2013) and IS THIS THE BODY / IF HOVERS (lyric&, 2019). His work has also appeared in VOLT, New American Writing, jubilat, Verse, and Tupelo Quarterly.