Collin Callahan was born in Illinois. His first collection of poetry, Thunderbird Inn, is now available from Conduit Books & Ephemera. His poems have appeared in Granta, Denver Quarterly, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of the 2021 Bat City Review Editors' Prize in poetry. Collin holds an MFA from the Conduit Books & Ephemera and a PhD in English and Creative Writing from Florida State University.

Books by Collin Callahan:

Other poems on the web by Collin Callahan:
"The Backwash of the Dead"
Two poems
Two poems

Collin Callahan's Website.

Collin Callahan on Twitter.

About Thunderbird Inn:

"These are dark, end-times poems that Basho could have written, they're that intimately observed and described. There's a run-down small-town America here that Callahan looks at more carefully than most, uncovering the beauties and horrors of roadside motels, the ubiquity of ceiling fans, and a nacho machine that 'vomits gold.' But there is a curious love about all of this, and friends who move alongside you when you pass through this book. And there is a magic to the close observation that redeems what is often squalid, like a contemporary American Georg Trakl, with just as many drugs."
—Matthew Rohrer