Steve Halle lives, writes, teaches, and publishes books in Normal, IL where he is the director of the Publications Unit at Illinois State University. He is the author of Cow Stomach and Mother Fat, Map of the Hydrogen World, cessation covers, and The Collectors, and his writing has been published in various literary magazines. He is the founder and publisher of the award-winning nonprofit literary publisher co•im•press, the editor-in-chief of the poetry magazine SRPR, and the founder and publisher for Downstate Legacies, Undiscovered Americas, and the teaching chapbook press and workshop PRESS 254.