John Poch was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1966. He took an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Florida and a Ph.D. in English from the University of North Texas. He has taught in the creative writing program at Texas Tech University for fourteen years and has published poems in Agni, Image, Poetry, Ploughshares, Yale Review, and many other journals. In Spring 2014 he was a Fulbright Core Scholar at the University of Barcelona in Spain.
