Corey Mesler is the owner of Burke’s Book Store, in Memphis, Tennessee. After ten chapbooks, his first full-length collection of poetry is Some Identity Problems (Foothills, 2007). He is the author of two novels, Talk (Livingston, 2002) and We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon (Livingston, 2005). His work appears in Smartish Pace, Issue 15. (2008)