Carson Pytell is a writer living outside Albany, NY, whose work appears in venues such as The Adirondack Review, North Dakota Quarterly, and The Heartland Review. He serves as Assistant Poetry Editor of Coastal Shelf, and his available chapbooks are First-Year (Alien Buddha Press, 2020), Trail (Guerrilla Genesis Press, 2020), The Gold That Stays (Cyberwit, 2021), Sketching (Impspired, 2021), Tomorrow Everyday, Yesterday Too (Anxiety Press, 2022), A Little Smaller Than the Final Quark (Bullshit Lit, 2022), Hate, Love, Hate (Back Room Poetry, 2022), and Willoughby, New York (Bottlecap Press, 2023).