Zach Peckham is a writer, editor, and educator. He is the author of the poetry collection As If And (New Mundo, 2026) and his poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in jubilat, Annulet, Territory, Poetry Northwest, Always Crashing, APARTMENT, Oversound, American Book Review, mercury firs, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA in poetry from the NEOMFA and teaches at Cleveland State and the Cleveland Institute of Art. He is the managing editor at the CSU Poetry Center and an editor-at-large at Cleveland Review of Books. He also runs a small press called Community Mausoleum and a journal called Coma.