Jeffrey Pethybridge grew up in Virginia and studied literature and critical theory at Old Dominion University, Boston University and the University of Missouri. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart prize and appears widely in journals such as Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Smartish Pace, Gulf Coast, DIAGRAM, LIT, Notre Dame Review, Poor Claudia, Chicago Review and others. He’s written two poetry manuscripts, The January Party and Striven, The Bright Treatise, and is also at work on a documentary project centered on the recently released torture-memos entitled Found Poem Including History, an Essay on the Epic. He lives in Austin with the poet Carolina Ebeid and their son Patrick.