Justin Phillip Reed is a South Carolina native and the author of the forthcoming chapbook, A History of Flamboyance (YesYes Books, 2016). His poems are forthcoming in Columbia Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Obsidian, RHINO, Tupelo Quarterly, and Union Station Magazine. He is a Junior Writer-in-Residence at Washington University in St. Louis. Find him at justinphillipreed.tumblr.com.