Hastings Hensel is the author of a previous chapbook, Control Burn, and the recipient of the 2014-2015 South Carolina Arts Commission Fellowship in Poetry. His poems have appeared in storySouth, The Greensboro Review, Cave Wall, 32 Poems, and elsewhere. He teaches at Coastal Carolina University, where he is the poetry editor of Waccamaw, and lives with his wife, Lee, in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina.