Michael McKeown Bondhus (he/they; formerly Charlie) is an Irish-American writer. His books include Divining Bones (Sundress, 2018) and All the Heat We Could Carry (Main Street Rag, 2013), winner of the Thom Gunn Award. His fiction has appeared in Chthonic Matter and Ghostlight and has been read on the Nocturnal Transmissions (Australia) podcast. Bondhus’s poetry has appeared in Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, Hotel Amerika, Court Green, Hayden’s Ferry Review, diode, and Copper Nickel. He has received fellowships from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Sundress Academy for the Arts, the Tyrone Guthrie Center (Ireland), and the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers (UK). He teaches at Raritan Valley Community College and lives in Jersey City, NJ. Instagram: BondhusPoetry