A multi-year finalist for the Spacks Prize and the author of Learning to Drown (2025), SM Stubbs lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he and his wife co-owned a craft-beer bar. Born and raised in South Florida, he attended Wake Forest and acquired his MFA from Indiana University. His work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, Poem-A-Day, New Ohio Review, december, Iron Horse, The Rumpus, Crab Creek Review, Anacapa Review and elsewhere.