Chad W. Lutz is a speedy, bipolar, non-binary writer born in Akron, Ohio, in 1986, and raised in the neighboring suburb of Stow. They graduated from Kent State University with their BA in English in 2008 and from Mills College in Oakland, California, with their MFA in Creative Writing in 2018. Their first book, For the Time Being (2020), won the 2019 Malcolm Lowry Award. Other recent works include poems, short stories, and essays in Bacopa Literary Review, Haunted Waters Press, Peeking Cat Literary, Hunger Mountain, and Paper Dragon.