Zachariah McVicker received his MFA in Poetry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2016. He has published poems in the Birmingham Poetry Review as well as 32 Poems, and has been anthologized in Best New Poetry from the Midwest - 2014.  Prose has appeared in Ninth Letter  and online for 32 Poemsand The Volta Blog. In 2014, his poetry was  selected by Roger Reeves for the Carol Kyle Award for Poetry at UIUC. He is the Editor of Ninth Letter's Web Editions for Summer 2018, Summer 2019 and Summer 2020 (forthcoming)