Michael J. Galko is a scientist and poet who lives and works in Houston, TX. He was a 2019 Pushcart Award nominee, a finalist in the 2020 Naugatuck River Review narrative poetry contest, and a finalist in the 2022 Bellevue Literary Review poetry contest. In the past year he has had poems published or accepted at Stillwater Review, Cagibi, Eclectica, Clackamas Literary Journal, Cordite Poetry Review (Australia), and Tar River Poetry, among other journals.