K. Tyler Christensen is a Professorial Lecturer in the departments of Literature, and Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies at American University. He holds a PhD in American Literature & Culture from the English Department at The George Washington University (GWU). The expanse of his doctoral work is concerned with media that emerges from the HIV/AIDS crisis from 1978-2000 and is titled, In Order to Survive: Queer Cultural Production and the Emergence of AIDS Media. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from American University where he was a merit fellow and an editorial staff member of Folio. He is the author of the chapbook, THAT BOY FROM IDAHO, which was chosen for publication as part of Ghost City Press’s Summer Series 2020. Poet Amy Lawless (Broadax) writes, “K. Tyler Christensen is an unabashed archivist of queer heartbreak who iterates and reiterates the phenomenology of a life through anaphora and these single-take, deeply imagistic scenes.” He is at work on a memoir tentatively titled, A History of the Problem, that tells the story of his experience in conversion therapy, which he has written about for The Huffington Post.