Michael Brooks Cryer teaches writing at Arizona State University. His poems and reviews have appeared in Quarterly West, Ecotone, DIAGRAM, Hayden's Ferry Review, Shenandoah and other journals. He is also an occasional freelance music critic for Phoenix New Times. Four Chambers Press released his chapbook, Channels, Frequencies & Sequences, the summer of 2017. Cryer's poetry collection, Selected Proverbs, won Elixir Press'  2016 Antivenom Poetry Award.