Rob Cook lives in New York City's East Village. He is the author of six collections, including BLUEPRINTS FOR A GENOCIDE (Spuyten Duyvil, 2012), EMPIRE IN THE SHADE OF A GRASS BLADE (Bitter Oleander Press, 2013), THE UNDERMINING OF THE DEMOCRATIC CLUB (Spuyten Duyvil, 2014), and ASKING MY LIVER FOR FORGIVENESS (Rain Mountain Press, 2014). Work has appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, Caliban, Fence, A cappella Zoo, Zoland Poetry, Tampa Review, Minnesota Review, AUFGABE, Caketrain, Many Mountains Moving, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Colorado Review, Bomb (online), Sugar House Review, MUDFISH, Pleiades, Versal, Weave, Wisconsin Review, Ur Vox, Heavy Feather Review, Phantom Drift, Osiris, etc.