Chad Faries has published poems, essays, photographs, interviews, and creative non-fiction in Exquisite Corpse, Mudfish, New American Writing, Barrow Street, The Hawai'i Review, Afterimage, Post Road, and others. The Border Will Be Soon was the winner of the Emergency Press open book competition in 2005. The Book of Knowledge, a poetry collection whose design and contents were inspired by a 1911 children’s encyclopedia, is being published by Vulgar Marsala Press. And a memoir, Some Houses: A Faries’ Tale, is in manuscript. Faries has been a Fulbright Fellow at Etövös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary, and teaches, at present, at Savannah State University in Savannah, Georgia.