ABOUT THE EDITOR

Dead Mall Press is run by me, R.M. Haines (known personally as Matt). You can find recent work of mine in Mercury Firs (forthcoming) Resources (at Blue Bag Press), Capgras, The Tiny, Works & Days, Protean, and Prolit. My first full-length collection of poems, A Dark Address, came out in April 2020 as a free PDF. Publishing it that way was largely a political decision against the conventional, career-oriented routes to publication that were available to me at the time. More recent collections I’ve self-published include Interrogation Days (October ‘24), Parking Lot Horizon (May ‘25) and Travis (forthcoming in June ‘25).

You can also find a variety of my essays and poems on a separate blog, Out of Its Wooden Brain. 

Lastly, for anyone who cares to know about my personal history, I grew up in a rural, southwestern Ohio town of about 3,000 people. I was the first in my family to graduate from college. I left Ohio in 2003 and have since lived in southern California, northern Texas, and Indiana (moving around mostly for grad school—MFA and PhD—and I write about some of my experiences with the academy in this essay.) In the summer of 2024, I returned to Ohio and now live in the Dayton area, where I work as an adjunct instructor in English at an online university and a community college.