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Alexander Johns is an Associate Professor of English at the University of North Georgia, where he teaches American literature and creative writing. He was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia and currently resides in the Athens, Georgia area. His most recent collection, Darwin's Book of Saints, was published in 2018 by Aurore Press. He is the recipient of the 2013 Pavement Saw Press Prize for his collection “Robot Cosmetics,” and his poems have appeared in Town Creek Poetry, Stray Dog Almanac, Chaffin Journal, Accents Publishing, The Oklahoma Review,Red River Review, Two Drops of Ink, The Journal of Language and Literacy Education, Kota Press, Scrivener’s Pen,Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel, Bellemeade Books, and other publications and were featured in the No Small Measure Georgia Broadsides project. He is the managing director of Word of Mouth, a monthly reading series bringing together nationally known and local writers in Athens, Georgia and Cincinnati, Ohio.