Tristan Beiter is a PhD student in English at the Univer at Buffalo and a poet. He holds a BA in English and Gender and Sexuality Studies from Swarthmore College and an MA in the Humanities from the University of Chicago. His research focuses on modern and contemporary poetics with particular interest in speculative fiction in poetry, queer and feminist writing, and the lyric. He is also a regular book reviewer of new science fiction and fantasy writing (prose and poetry) at Strange Horizons, and an occasional general-audiences critic elsewhere.