Ed Brickell lives in Dallas, Texas with two cats, Harper and Maya. He reads and writes, hikes and watches birds, and posts his published poetry at shortsurpriselife.com. He has recently been published or will be published soon in Hiram Poetry Review, Modern Haiku, Last Leaves Magazine, Loch Raven Review, Backchannels, and other publications, and is currently compiling his first chapbook manuscript.