Simon Mermelstein’s poetry appears/is upcoming in The Atlanta Review, RHINO, Spillway, Cleaver, The MacGuffin, FreezeRay, Mobius, Black Heart, Light, Literary Orphans, Third Wednesday, The Lost Country, Poems-For-All, Parody, and the nebulous “other places”. A Pushcart nominee, he’s made it to Slam Finals and given feature readings in both Ann Arbor and Detroit. He’s just about to drop his second chapbook, The Continuing Adventures of Orthomax, and he’s gonna keep better sales records than last time. In his spare time, he enjoys winning slams and getting published.