John Maher is an award-winning journalist and poet living in Brooklyn, NY. He is digital editor and associate news editor at Publishers Weekly and co-editor of The Dot and Line. He has written for such publications as Esquire.com, Thrillist, Kirkus Reviews, Electric Literature, Hyperallergic, and The Rumpus, among others. His poems have been acclaimed by Mark Wunderlich as “sharp, short, and striking, notable for their control and their certainty. I admire the endings of the poems in particular, with their modest flourishes, their brandished daggers."