Chris Barton is the author of the poetry chapbook A Finely Calibrated Apocalypse (Bottlecap Press, 2024). His writing has appeared in Epiphany, Peach Magazine, The Plenitudes, Hotel, Entropy, and elsewhere. A recipient of the University of Tennessee’s Undergraduate Writing Award in 2013, Chris interned with Sundress Publications as an editorial assistant from 2014-2015. From 2016 to 2019, he co-hosted the Electric Pheasant Poetry Open Mic in Knoxville, TN, where he still lives with his beloved,