Jeddie SophroniusJeddie Sophronius is the author of the poetry collections Happy Poems & Other Lies (Codhill Press, 2024), Love & Sambal (The Word Works, 2024), and the chapbook Blood-Letting (Quarterly West, 2023), a runner-up for Quarterly West's 2022 Chapbook Contst. A Chinese-Indonesian writer, educator, and translator originally from Jakarta, he received his B.A. in English: Creative Writing from Western Michigan University and his M.F.A. from the University of Virginia, where he served as the editor of Meridian. Their poems have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, The Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere, while their prose is forthcoming in The Third Coast and The Arkansas International. They currently live and teach in Charlottesville, VA. They divide their time between Indonesia and the United States. Read more of their work at nakedcentaur.com Read More Read Less