John Estes directs the creative writing program at Malone University in Canton, Ohio and is on the faculty of Ashland University’s Low-Residency MFA. He is author of Kingdom Come (C&R Press, 2011) and two chapbooks: Breakfast with Blake at the Laocoön (Finishing Line Press, 2007) and Swerve, which won a 2008 National Chapbook Fellowship from the Poetry Society of America.