Dennis Etzel Jr.

Dennis Etzel Jr. is a poet and writer and a senior lecturer in English at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. Their memoir-poem My Secret Wars of 1984 was published by BlazeVOX in 2015 and named a Best Poetry Book of 2015 by The Kansas City Star. They have also published a sequel, My Grunge of 1991, with BlazeVOX in 2017. They describe themselves as a neuroqueer poet and use he/they pronouns on their site. Their work has appeared in journals including Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, 3:AM, and DIAGRAM.