Dustin Brookshire, a finalist for the 2021 Scotti Merrill Award, is the curator of the Wild & Precious Life Series, a Zoom based poetry reading series. He is the author of the chapbook To The One Who Raped Me (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2012) and the forthcoming chapbook Love Most Of You Too (Harbor Editions, 2021). Dustin is a Pushcart Prize nominee , and his work has been published or is forthcoming in Assaracus, Whiskey Island, Mollyhouse, The West Review, Oddball, Gulf Stream, SubtleTea, Ocho, Oranges & Sardines, Ouroboros, Qarrtsiluni, Blue Fifth Review, and other publications.  He has been anthologized in The Queer South: LGBTQ Writes on the American South (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014) and Divining Divas: 100 Gay Men on their Muses (Lethe Press, 2012).