Nicholas Alexander Hayes is a Chicago-based writer and educator. He is the author of Ante-Animots: Idioms and Tales NIV: 39 & 7 (both published by BlazeVOX) Between (Atropos) ThirdSexPot (Beard of Bees) and Metastaesthetics (Atropos). His work has been featured in the anthologies Madder Love: Queer Men and the Precincts of Surrealism and Quantum Genre in the Planet of Arts. Most recently his creative writing has appeared in Scab Peculiar Mormyrid SurVision and BlazeVox Journal.