Cimmerian Urbanek’s work has appeared in Helix, Coastlines, and the Bennington Review. Their poems will be published in the upcoming Maple Leaf Poets Anthology and Ar Li Jo. Urbanek is currently seeking a publisher for their collection of poems, Ballad of the Riot Dogs. Urbanek is working on a non-fiction piece book, Disposable Girls, that exposes abuse at residential treatment/conversion therapy centers for teens in Utah. Cimmerian has an MFA in Poetry, from Bennington College and is working on a PhD with a Concentration in Poetry at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Cimmerian has created a class in Disability Studies in Literature at UL and is designing an interdisciplinary minor in Disability Studies for Undergraduates at UL. They have presented work in Disability Studies in Literature at Naropa University and Northwestern University. This year they will be part of a Feminist round-table on the Future of Disability Studies at NEMLA and they will participate in a panel at the Comparative Drama Conference in Orlando. Cimmerian's critical dissertation is on The Paradoxical Space of the Sideshow in Southern Literature and their Creative dissertation is a book of poetry called The Chameleon that Wanted to be a Color that does not Exist. Cimmerian is the founder and editor of the literary review Entartete Kunst. When everything shifts red and the mantle buckles…right before the uroboros consumes itself to a singularity…Cimmerian Shores can be found under a raised scale arranging mites into letters… arranging letters into gut bellows.