Nicholas Alexander Hayes is a Chicago-based writer and educator. He is the author of "Ante-Animots: Idioms and Tales," "NIV: 39 & 7" (both published by BlazeVOX), "Between" (Atropos), "ThirdSexPot" (Beard of Bees), and "Metastaesthetics" (Atropos). His work has been featured in the anthologies "Madder Love: Queer Men and the Precincts of Surrealism" and "Quantum Genre in the Planet of Arts." Most recently his creative writing has appeared in "Scab", "Peculiar Mormyrid", "SurVision", and "BlazeVox Journal".