Kevin A. Risner is the author of My Ear is a Sieve (Bottlecap Press, 2017); Do Us a Favor (Variant Literature, 2021); and You Thought This Was Just Gonna Be About Cleveland, Didn't You (Ghost City Press, 2022). His upcoming debut full-length from ELJ Editions, There's No Future Where We Don't Have Fire, will be released in October of 2025.