Woody Dismukes is a Brazilian-American poet, author, and educator. He attended Clarion West in 2018 and was awarded an inaugural Ignyte Award in 2020. He has taught at University Settlement's Creative Center, the Dorothy Kirby and Camp Kilpatrick juvenile detention centers, and the University of Iowa, where he is a current MFA Candidate in Fiction. His 2022 debut novel Abicus Blues premiered as an Audible Exclusive and his shorter work is featured or forthcoming in Lightspeed, Nightmare, FIYAH, Strange Horizons, Apex, and elsewhere.