SAMUEL STENGER RENKEN received his BA at Nebraska Wesleyan with the late great Bill Kloefkorn, an MA at Clemson with Keith Lee Morris, and an MFA in Wyoming with H.L. Hix. His first book of poetry, Where to Start, was published by Logan House in 2011, and First Pony Out was published by WSC Press in 2020. He is currently Managing Director of Consolidated Planning Atlanta.