Mike Dockins holds an MFA from UMASS Amherst, where he worked as an editorial assistant at The Massachusetts Review. His poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in The Gettysburg Review, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, Paragraph, The Greensboro Review, Faultline, The Cream City Review, and many other journals. A recent Pushcart prize nominee, Mike currently lives in Atlanta where he is Poetry Editor of Terminus. He also co-founded and co-edits Redactions: Poetry & Poetics. He is a singer-songwriter whose acoustic band CLOP is completing its fourth album of original tunes.