Neil Carpathios is the author of three full-length poetry collections: Playground of Flesh (Main Street Rag Publishing Company), At the Axis of Imponderables (winner of the Quercus Review Press Book Award), and Beyond the Bones (FutureCycle Press). He also is editor of Every River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio (Ohio University Press, 2015). He is an associate professor of English and Coordinator of Creative Writing at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio.