Bernd Sauermann teaches writing, literature, and film at Hopkinsville Community College in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. He is the associate editor at Posit,: A Journal of Literature and Art. He’s had poems, stories and photographs published in The McSweeney’s Book of Poets Picking Poets, McSweeney’s, Southern Indiana Review, New Orleans Review, Nimrod, Poet Lore, The Kansas Quarterly Review of Literature, Leveler, Mad Hat Review, eRatio, Vinyl Poetry, and many other publications. He has a chapbook entitled Diesel Generator out from Horse Less Press (2013), and a full-length collection, Seven Notes of a Dead Man’s Song, will be published in the coming year by Mad Hat Press.