Carey Scott Wilkerson is a member of the English department at Columbus State University where he teaches composition, literature, and creative writing. His work has appeared in many publications including e-ratio, zafusy, Word/for Word, X-stream, and Amaryllis. He is a recipient of a 2009 residency fellowship from the Lillian E. Smith Center for Creative Arts and has been a visiting writer at Clayton State University. He is co-founder of Dead Academics Press, an independent publisher of avant-garde poetry and fiction. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte. His book of poems *Threading Stone* is published by New Plains Press, which will also publish his new collection in Spring 2011.