George Kalamaras, a former Poet Laureate of Indiana (2014-2016), is the author of fifteen books of poetry, eight of which are full-length, including "Kingdom of Throat-Stuck Luck", winner of the Elixir Press Poetry Prize (2011), and "The Theory and Function of Mangoes" (2000), winner of the Four Way Books Intro Series. He is Professor of English at Purdue University Fort Wayne, where he has taught since 1990.