John Pursley III teaches at Clemson University, where he directs the Clemson Literary Festival. He is the author of the poetry collection, If You Have Ghosts and the chapbooks, Supposing, for Instance, Here in the Space-Time Continuum, A Story without Poverty, A Conventional Weather, and When, By the Titanic. He is an editor at Burnside Review and South Carolina Review. His work has appeared in Poetry, Colorado Review, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere.