William Taylor Jr. is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet. He lives in San Francisco with his wife Anise and a cat named Trouble. His work has appeared in Poesy, Anthills, and The Chiron Review among many other publications throughout the small press and across the internet. He is the author of several chapbooks, including: Any Abyss Will Do, The Sad Dumb Beauty of Everything, The Bones Of Things, and So Much Is Burning. He was a contributing writer to Last Call: The Legacy of Charles Bukowski (Lummox Press). He will one day be the last man in America not toown a cell phone.