Bernd Sauermann holds an M.A. and M.F.A. from McNeese State University and teaches composition, literature, and film at Hopkinsville Community College in Hopkinsville, KY. His poems and fiction have appeared in The McSweeney’s Book of Poets Picking Poets, McSweeney’s, Southern Indiana Review, New Orleans Review, Nimrod, Amelia, Indefinite Space, Conduit, Comstock Review, Poet Lore, The Round Table, Poetry Motel, Pegasus, Ship of Fools, The Kansas Quarterly Review of Literature, Open 24 Hours, and Monadnock Writer. His book-length ms is shuffling door to door.