Chad Reynolds is a poet and visual artist from Oklahoma City, OK. He is the author of five poetry chapbooks, and his typewriter art has been featured in magazines and journals in the U.S., Germany, and Denmark. He is the co-founder of Penny Candy Books, an independent book publisher that highlights diverse issues and life experiences in children’s books. Reynolds was once an insurance broker and an English and composition teacher and adjunct professor. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in poetry from Emerson College in Boston, MA, and a BA in English and Medieval and Renaissance Studies from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA. He is also the co-founder of Short Order Poems, a performance-art poetry experience that uses typewriters to create poetry on demand for strangers.