Brad Baumgartner is a writer, theorist, and Assistant Teaching Professor of English at Penn State. His recent critical and creative work has recently appeared in Interdisciplinary Humanities, Cyclops Journal, Queen Mob's Teahouse, Vestiges, Minor Literature[s], and others. Current projects include 'Weird Mysticism', a scholarly monograph, as well as several creative projects including a hybrid work entitled 'Stylinaut' and a book of poetry, 'Ailis of Fintona'.