A mechanical engineer in Houston, Texas, John Milkereit is originally from Chicago and completed an MFA in creative writing at the Rainier Writing Workshop. Pudding House Press published his chapbooks Home & Away and Paying Admissions in 2010. His full-length collections are A Rotating Equipment Is Never Finished (Ink Brush Press, 2015), Drive the World in a Taxicab (Lamar University Literary Press, 2018), A Place Comfortable with Fire (Lamar University Literary Press, 2022), and Lost Sonnets for My Unvaccinated Lover (Kelsay Books, 2023). His poems have appeared in The Comstock Review, Naugatuck River Review, and The Ekphrastic Review.
