Lee Chilcote lives in a 1900 Victorian in Cleveland, Ohio with his wife, Katherine, and their three children. He has worked as a community organizer, real estate developer, writer and teacher. He once read his poetry at the Slovenian National Benefit Society Farm in Kirtland, Ohio, where they served steins of beer and sausages and people danced to a polka band. He holds degrees from Oxford University and Cleveland State University and his writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, Next City, and numerous literary journals. In 2016, Finishing Line Press published his chapbook of poems, The Shape of Home. He is cofounder and director of Literary Cleveland. leechilcote.com /litcleveland.org