Cody Deitz resides in Grand Forks, North Dakota, where he is pursuing his PhD in English at the University of North Dakota. His chapbook Desert Sacrament was a finalist for the Uppercut Chapbook Prize and he is a recent winner of the Academy of American Poets University Prize. His poetry has been published or is forthcoming in various literary journals including Ellipsis, Literary Orphans, NAILED, Split Lip Magazine, and others.