Robert Dewhurst is a poet and poetry scholar who lives in Los Angeles. He is the publisher of Scary Topiary Press, a poetry chapbook series, and was the editor of Satellite Telephone (2007-’10) and co-editor of Wild Orchids (2009-’11). He has been a participant in Semiotext(e) since 2005 and in 2012-’14 worked as a general assistant on KCRW’s Bookworm. He is a PhD candidate in SUNY-Buffalo’s Poetics Program and is currently researching John Wieners.