Ian U Lockaby is a poet, translator, and editor of the online journal mercury firs. He's the author of Defensible Space/if a crow— (Omnidawn Publishing) and A Seam of Electricity (Ghost Proposal). His work has been or will be published in journals such as Ecotone, Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review, FENCE, Black Warrior Review, Bennington Review, and Poetry Northwest. He lives in New Orleans.