Taylor Brorby is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Alabama, USA where he teaches creative nonfiction. He is the author of Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land (2022), Crude: Poems (2017), Coming Alive: Action and Civil Disobedience (2017), and co-editor of Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America (2016) . He is a contributing editor at North American Review and serves on the editorial boards of Terrain.org and Hub City Press.