Austin MessickAustin Messick is a writer and educator who earned his MFA in poetry from SFSU in 2016. He was co-curator of the VelRo Reading series during the 2014-2015 season. He also won Transfer Magazine's Mark Linenthal Award for his poem Kiev in May 2015. Ausin now lives in sunny Southern California. THE ROSE WINDOW, winner of the 2017 Michael Rubin Book Award, is his first book. Read More Read Less