T.J. Sandella is the recipient of an Elinor Benedict Prize for Poetry, a William Matthews Poetry Prize, two Academy of American Poets Prizes, and a Pushcart Prize nomination. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, Poet Lore, Passages North, the South Carolina Review, the Chattahoochee Review, the Raleigh Review, and Hotel Amerika, among many others. He lives with his puppy, Rufio, in Cleveland, Ohio, where he’s a soapbox spokesman for the Rust Belt’s revitalization.