— his newest book of poetry, Clean Coal Burn, is available from Kelsay Books. His first collection of stories, Some Birds Nest in Broken Branches, will be released later this year from Alien Buddha Press. You can follow him on Twitter at @kip_knott and read more of his writing at kipknott.com. Currently, he lives in Delaware, Ohio, with his wife, son, three cats, a dog, and a Chilean rose hair tarantula.