J. L. Yocum is an autistic musician, poet and IWW member living in Brooklyn. He holds a BA in English Composition, concentration Poetry, from the University of North Texas, and is a staff poetry reader for Quarterly West. His poems have appeared in Albatross, The Orchards Poetry Journal, ionosphere, The Big Windows Review, The Broken Teacup, and Pinhole Poetry, and are forthcoming in The Comstock Review, Thimble Literary Magazine, and Moonday Mag. He pays the rent working in a fine-art-adjacent industry and splits the bills with his wife and their indolent marmalade tabby.