Michael Beadle is a poet, author and writer-in-residence living in Raleigh, NC. Since 1999, he’s taught thousands of students in poetry and creative writing workshops across the Tar Heel state, and performed poetry at schools, churches and festivals. He’s the author of several poetry collections, including What Makes a Giraffe Laugh? (for children), Beasts of Eden and Primer. His poems have appeared in journals such as Kakalak, River Heron Review, Broad River Review, and the Southern Poetry Anthology, Vol. VII: North Carolina. His short fiction has appeared in Apple Valley Review, moonShine review, and BOMBFIRE. Beadle has served as a guest editor for Prime Number Magazine, poet-in-residence at the NC Zoo in Asheboro, A+ Fellow for the NC A+ Schools program, instructor at Duke Young Writers’ Camp (Duke University), emcee for NC Poetry Out Loud, and student contest manager for the NC Poetry Society.