Ephraim Scott Sommers is a poet and singer-songwriter from Atascadero, California. Most recently, his book of poems, The Night We Set the Dead Kid on Fire, was awarded the 2016 Patricia Bibby First Book Award and was published by Tebot Bach Press in February of 2017. Essays, poems, and fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Minnesota Review, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. He received his PhD from Western Michigan University and his MFA from San Diego State University. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina where he lives with his wife, Ann Reilly-Sommers.