sam sax is a fellow at The Michener Center for Writers & the associate poetry editor for Bat City Review. He’s the two time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion & author of the chapbooks, A Guide to Undressing Your Monsters (Button Poetry), and sad boy / detective (2014 Black River Chapbook Prize). His poems have been published or are forthcoming from Boston Review, The Minnesota Review, The Normal School, Rattle, & other journals.