Isaac Pickell is a biracial poet & PhD candidate in Detroit, where he teaches the writing of poetry and the reading of literature. He received his MFA from Miami University and is the founding Editor-in-Chief of The Woodward Review. He is the author of the chapbook everything saved will be last and his work has appeared in Copper Nickel, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Passages North, among other journals.

"Isaac Pickell is a poet of jaw-dropping turns of thought—lines looping around their ends with all the torque of a serpentine belt, exploding their premises, rattling expectation. In this rare precision of poetic thought is also care, a care which reminds us that behind each poem is a feeling there’s somebody the poems defend against the brutal foreclosures of this historical moment and the inscriptions this blurb might bring. What’s that? “It’s not over once you figure it out.” I mean, as soon as I read this, I read it again. What are you waiting for?"—Joe Hall, author of Fugue and Strike