Michael Alessi is the author of the chapbook The Horribles (Greying Ghost). His work has appeared in Ninth Letter, Passages North, The Pinch, Mid-American Review, The Cincinnati Review and other journals, and he has earned recognition and honors from the AWP Intro Journals Project, Best of the Net and the Academy of American Poets. A native of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, he holds an MFA from Old Dominion University. Reach him on twitter @michael_alessi.