Eric Tyler Benick is the author of the chapbooks I Don't Know What an Oboe Can Do (No Rest Press, 2020) and The George Oppen Memorial BBQ (The Operating System, 2019) as well as a founding editor at Ursus Americanus Press, a publisher of chapbooks. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Washington Square Review, Vassar Review, Bat City Review, Birdcoat Quarterly, Mount Island, Ghost Proposal, No, Dear, Reality Beach, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn.