Eric Braude grew up in South Africa and was a professor of computer science at Boston University. He won the 27th annual Eagle-Tri-bune/Robert Frost Foundation Spring Poetry Contest and wrote the front matter poem for the Grey Court Poets’ anthology Songs from the Castle’s Remains, published in 2013. Braude’s poetry had recently appeared in Decolonial Passage, The African Writer, The Apple Valley Review, and J Journal, and many other journals. His poetry collection, The Grass in Flames, is being circulated for publication.