Gary Leising is the author of a chapbook of poems, Fastened to a Dying Animal, published by Pudding House Press. His work has appeared in many literary journals, including The Cincinnati Review, River Styx, and The Prose-Poem Project. His essays and reviews have appeared in Chicago Review, The James Dickey Newsletter, and elsewhere. He lives in Utica, New York, with his wife and two sons, where he teaches creative writing and poetry as an associate professor of English.