Colin Bailes is the author of Assemblage after the Wreck, semifinalist in the 2020 Frontier Chapbook Contest. His work has appeared in The Boiler, The Cortland Review, The McNeese Review, Missouri Review, and Raleigh Review, among other journals. He is an MFA candidate at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he serves as the 2020–2021 Levis Reading Prize Fellow.