Zachary Lundgren grew up in Northern Virginia, received his MFA in poetry from the University of South Florida and his bachelor’s in English from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has had poetry published in several literary journals and magazines, including The Louisville Review, The Portland Review, Barnstorm Journal, The Adirondack Review and the University of Colorado Honors Journal. He was nominated for the 2012 AWP Intro Journals Award and was awarded the Estelle J. Zbar Poetry Prize in 2012. Zachary is also a poetry editor for Sweet: A Literary Confection and a founding editor of Blacktop Passages.