Jake Sheff is a pediatrician and veteran of the US Air Force. He's married with a daughter and a crazy bulldog. Poems, book reviews, and short stories of Jake’s have been published widely. A full-length collection of formal poetry, A Kiss to Betray the Universe, is available from White Violet Press. He also has three chapbooks: Looting Versailles (Alabaster Leaves Publishing), The Rites of Tires (SurVision) and The Seagull’s First One Hundred Seguidillas (Alien Buddha Press).