Scot Slaby, a teacher and poet, earned his MA in Writing (Poetry) from The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where he was named an Outstanding Graduate in 2009, and his BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis from Hartwick College in 1998. His poems have appeared in The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics Including Odd and Invented Forms, Unsplendid, Verse Wisconsin, and elsewhere in print and online. For the past twelve years, he has taught writing to high school and community college students in and near Frederick County, Maryland, where he lives with his wife and children.