John Milkereit, originally from Chicago, currently works as a mechanical engineer for an engineering firm in Houston, Texas. He has completed a M.F.A. in Creative Writing at the Rainier Writing Workshop. His work has appeared in various literary journals including Naugatuck River Review, Panoply, San Pedro River Review, and The Ekphrastic Review. His chapbooks are Home & Away and Paying Admissions (Pudding House Press, 2010). His previous full-length collections of poetry are A Rotating Equipment Is Never Finished (Ink Brush Press, 2015) and Drive the World in a Taxicab (Lamar University Literary Press, 2018).