Jackson CulpepperJackson Culpepper grew up in Georgia, whose red hills and swamps shaped these stories. Since then, he has lived in Southern Appalachia, the mountain west, and the desert Southwest. Songs on the Water was his fiction thesis at the University of South arolina's MFA program. His work has appeared in Armchair/Shotgun, Cartridge Lit, and most recently in Identity Theory. He currently serves as the poet laureate of the progressive First Baptist Church of Denver, where his poems have been set to music and performed. He lives and teaches first-year English at several community colleges in the Denver, Colorado area. Read More Read Less