Matthew M. Monte (’15) grew up near San Francisco, California, and attended the University of Hawaii-Manoa, where he studied botany. His fiction, poetry, book reviews, music reviews, journalism, and essays have appeared in Sidestream, Creosote Journal, Transfer, Ashcan Magazine, The Snackbar Collective, iNaturalist, Panorama, and the Poets 11 Anthologies (2014 and 2016). He lives in San Francisco with his wife and son. His new collection, All Tomorrow’s Train Rides, is now available through Sixteen Rivers Press. His debut collection, The Case of the Six-Sided Dream, won the 2017 Blue Light Poetry Prize.