Jaydn DeWald, who made our 2019 shortlist, is a writer, teacher, musician, and the author of three chapbooks, The Rosebud Variations: And Other Variations (Greying Ghost, 2017); In Whose Hand the Light Expires (Yellow Flag Press, 2018); and as counterpoint to this compressed mass a longing (forthcoming from Sutra Press). His poems, stories, and critical essays have appeared in Best New Poets 2015, The National Poetry Review, Popshot Quarterly, West Branch, Witness, and many others. 
