Pete Follansbee has his MFA in Poetry from The University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His poems have appeared in The North American Review, The Iowa Journal of Literary Studies, Pavement magazine, and The Georgetown Review (a poem which won honorable mention in their annual contest). Most recently his poem, “Rug,” was a finalist in The New Guard Review’s Knightsville Poetry Contest; it will appear in The New Guard, Vol VI this coming spring or early summer, 2017. After growing up in New England and living in Iowa for five years, Pete now lives and teaches in Richmond, Virginia.