Originally from New England, Hassan Melehy lived all over the United States before settling in North Carolina in 2004. His poems have appeared in The Hat, nthposition, Borderlands, and Redheaded Stepchild, among other journals. His first collection, A Modest Apocalypse, was published by Eyewear in 2017. His verse is eclectic but owes more to experimental practices, from the sixteenth century to the present, than anything. The son of immigrants, one from western Europe and the other from the Middle East, he sometimes writes about his experiences as a second-generation American. In addition to his creative writing he has written three books of literary criticism, most recently Kerouac: Language, Poetics, and Territory (Bloomsbury, 2016). He lives in Chapel Hill, NC with his wife, Dorothea Heitsch, and teaches French and Comparative Literature at UNC.