Telly’s poetry has appeared in Cowboy Poetry Press, Assaracus, Vox Poetica, and Referential Magazine, among others.  His flash fiction, Patches, was the winner of the 2008 Hayward Fault Line Competition and appeared in Doorknobs & Body Paint in 2009.  His short fiction piece “Culverts and Coverts” is forthcoming in Jonathan.  He is a native of Louisville, Kentucky but now resides in the Cincinnati area of Kentucky after spending several years in between Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, DC.  He works professionally as a fundraiser and can be contacted @telwrites on Twitter and is also on Facebook.