SB STOKES writes, draws, designs, produces, and edits in the hills behind a lake in Oakland, California. His first book of poetry, A History of Broken Love Things, was published by Punk Hostage Press in 2014. A chapbook of SB’s poems, DARK ENTRIES, was also published in 2014 as part of a joint project by Gorilla Press and The Pedestrian Press. In 2018, he self-published a chapbook called Let’s Call This Nothing. A fourth-generation Californian, SB holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and is both the former poetry and art editor for Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review, as well as being a ten-plus year employee of SF State’s legendary Poetry Center & American Poetry Archive. His poems have been published both in print and online in many quality publications.

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