Dennis Etzel Jr. lives with their spouse Carrie and their boys in Topeka, Kansas, where he teaches English at Washburn University. My Secret Wars of 1984 (BlazeVOX 2015) was selected by The Kansas City Star as a Best Poetry Book of 2015. Fast-Food Sonnets (Coal City Review Press 2016) is a 2017 Kansas Notables Book selected by the State of Kansas Library.