Kai Carlson-Wee was born and raised in Minnesota and now lives in California. He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and his work has appeared in Ploughshares, Best New Poets, TriQuarterly, Blackbird, Crazyhorse, and The Missouri Review. He is the author of RAIL, forthcoming from BOA Editions.