Oliver Bendorf’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Best New Poets 2012, Indiana Review, Ninth Letter, Redivider, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. He is an MFA candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he holds the Martha Meier-Renk Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in Poetry and edits Devil’s Lake. A finalist for the 2012 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, he is the recipient of a David and Jean Milofsky Prize in Creative Writing and a fellowship from the Lambda Literary Foundation. He was born and raised in Iowa City, Iowa. oliverbendorf.com