Coleman Edward Dues is a poet, critic, editor, and copywriter from Texas. The author of Pop-Country Sellout (Wry Press, 2022), his poetry and prose are published or forthcoming in Chicago Review, Fence, Gulf Coast, Denver Quarterly, Black Warrior Review, and the Cleveland Review of Books, among other places. A one-time intern at Saatchi & Saatchi Dallas and a former editor for Poets.org, he attended portfolio school at the University of Texas at Austin and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School, a private research university in New York City.