Steve Bellin-Oka earned his MFA from the University of Virginia and his PhD from the University of Southern Mississippi’s Center for Writers. His first book of poems, Instructions for Seeing a Ghost, won the 2019 Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry and will be published in February 2020 by the University of North Texas Press. He is also the author of two chapbooks, Out of the Frame (Walls Divide Press, 2019) and Dead Letter Office at North Atlantic Station (Seven Kitchens Press, 2017). The recipient of a 2019-2020 Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Steve has also received fellowships from Yaddo, the National Parks Arts Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia Center for the Arts. He currently lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. www.steve-bellin-oka.com