Adam Ray Wagner is a poet, translator and musician and is currently working towards his PhD at the University at Buffalo. He earned his BA in English from Colorado State University, his MA in English: Poetry & Poetics from University of Maine, and his MFA in poetry from Boise State University. His research uses the frame of poetics to study "total artworks" and interdisciplinary practices as they relate to ideas of mapping, spatiality, and motion. His poetry, essays, and translation can be found, among other places, in Colorado Review, Missouri Review, and Firmament.