Wesley Scott McMasters is a poet from Northern Appalachia (Patton, PA) who now resides in East Tennessee (Jefferson City) with his dog Poet ("He came with the name--I swear!"), and he teaches American Lit and Creative Writing at Carson-Newman University. His first book of poems, TRYING TO BE A PERSON, was published in 2016 (Words Dance) and the next, IN WHICH MY LOVER TELLS ME ABOUT THE NATURE OF WILD THINGS, is due from Mammoth Books this year.
