Fenner, Derek: - Derek Fenner is an artist, educator, poet, and researcher based in the Carolinas. He earned his MFA in Writing and Poetics from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. He is the author of more than half a dozen books, including Wild Schemes (Auguste Press, 2010), Hermeticities & Others (Bootstrap Press, 2016), and Gossamer Nevele Grimoire (Bird & Beckett Books, 2020). He co-edited Arcana: A Stephen Jonas Reader (City Lights Books, 2019). He is currently an assistant professor and the director of art education at the University of South Carolina Upstate. He lives in Western North Carolina with his son, Oliver.