Cody Deitz is a California native but now resides in Grand Forks, North Dakota, where he is pursuing his PhD in English at the University of North Dakota. He is a recent winner of the Academy of American Poets University Prize, and his poetry has been published or is forthcoming in various literary journals including Ellipsis, Literary Orphans, NAILED, Split Lip Magazine, and others, and he recently released his first chapbook, Pressed Against All That Nothing, with Yak Press