Jakob Maier is a writer living in central New York. He is the author of Box of Swords (Foundlings Press, 2020) and Conversations (Ghost City Press, 2017), and his manuscript Happy Hour in the Decline of Civilization was runner-up for the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and a finalist for the Metatron Prize. He is the managing editor of Peach Mag. Find him on Twitter @goodtimejakob.