David Welch has published poems in journals including Kenyon Review Online, AGNI, TriQuarterly, and West Branch. Poetry Editor for ACM, he lives in Chicago where he teaches creative writing and literature and develops literacy outreach programming at DePaul University. He also has poems published or forthcoming in Quarterly West, Indiana Review, Subtropics, Pleiades, and Helen Burns Poetry Anthology: New Voices from the Academy of American Poets’ University & College Prizes, 1999–2008. He received his MFA from the University of Alabama. (updated 4/2013)

His AGNI poem “Instructional Ghazal” is reprinted in Best of the Web 2010, published by Dzanc Books.