CJ Evans is the author of Lives, selected by Victoria Chang for the Kathryn A. Morton Prize from Sarabande Books, A Penance (New Issues Press) and a chapbook, The Category of Outcast, selected by Terrance Hayes for a Poetry Society of America chapbook fellowship. A past recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship, recent poems have appeared in the Adroit Journal, Kenyon Review, Lit Hub, Yale Review, and elsewhere. He’s the editor in chief of Two Lines Press, a publisher of international literature in translation, and lives in the Bay Area.