John Liles is a poet, science writer, and living mammal. His work is predicated on academic and archival research — a writing process that necessitates achieving an organic/animal understanding of the present surviving phenomenon. Aiming to establish a new interdisciplinary space between the arts and sciences, Liles holds to a self-established canon where the scientific must remain true. Liles is a graduate of the MFA program at New York University and former artist-in-residence at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation. His chapbook, Following the dog down, was the recipient of the Omnidawn Chapbook Prize. He resides in Fort Bragg, CA, where he writes and works as the head naturalist at the Pacific Environmental Education Center. Send thoughts of small mammals to johnliles@gmail.com.

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