Abraham Smith is the author of numerous poetry collections-most recently, the chapbook Bear Lite Inn (New Michigan Press, 2020), the full-length Destruction of Man (Third Man Books, 2018), and Dear Weirdo (Propeller Books, 2022). Away from his scampers and desks, he improvises poems inside songs with the Snarlin' Yarns; their debut record Break Your Heart was released on Dial Back Sound in Fall 2020: thesnarlinyarnsut.bandcamp.com. He lives in Ogden, Utah, where he is associate professor of English and co-director of Creative Writing at Weber State.