Michael Tod Edgerton is a queer poet and author of the collection Vitreous Hide from Lavender Ink press (https://www.lavenderink.org/site/shop/vitreous-hide) . His poems have appeared previously as the winner of the Boston Review and Five Fingers Review contests, and in Coconut, Denver Quarterly, Drunken Boat, EOAGH, Interim, New American Writing, New Orleans Review, Posit, and Sonora Review, among other journals. He holds an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University and a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Georgia. He lives in the city that used to be San Francisco and teaches academic and creative writing at San José State University. Check out Tod’s ongoing participatory project at WhatMostVividly.com.