Nate Maxson is a writer and performance artist from Cleveland, Ohio. He discovered poetry as a boy the way other people find religion or drugs and hasn't looked back since. He is the author of several collections of poetry including "I Wished For A Serpent" and most recently "The Age Of Jive". He has had poems appear in (among many places) Eunoia, Toe Good, Empty Mirror and Cultural Weekly. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.