Mike Bagwell is a writer and software engineer out of Philadelphia. He received an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence and has work published or forthcoming in Action Spectacle, ITERANT, Sprung Formal, trampset, Heavy Feather Review, Halfway Down the Stairs, HAD, BULL, Bodega Magazine, SOFTBLOW, Whiskey Island, and others. Some editors have kindly nominated him for a pushcart. He is the author of the chapbooks A Collision of Soul in Midair (Bottlecap Press 2023), Or Else they are Trees, and a micro When We Look at Things We Steal their Color and Grow Heavy Under their Weight (Rinky Dink Press 2024). He was the founding editor and designer of the currently deceased El Aleph Press.