Troy Schoultz is a lifelong Wisconsin resident. His poems, stories, and reviews have appeared in Seattle Review, Rattle, Slipstream, Chiron Review, Midwestern Gothic and several others. He's the author of two chapbooks and one full-length collection: A Field of Bonfires Sings (Wolf Angel Press, 1999), Good Friday (Tamafyr Mountain Poetry 2005) and Biographies of Runaway Dogs (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2017). He teaches for the University of Wisconsin at the Oshkosh and Fox Cities campuses. His interests and influences include rock and roll, playing the bass, found objects, the paranormal, abandoned places, folklore, old cemeteries and the number five.