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T. J. McLemore is a PhD candidate听specializing in contemporary speculative literature with an emphasis on ecocritical approaches to science fictions, speculative verse, and the new weird. His dissertation project draws on speculative poetics, the posthumanities, critical environmental justice studies, and Black and Indigenous studies to argue for the importance of 鈥渟peculative ecologies鈥� in imagining ourselves as听ethically Earthbound. McLemore holds a BA with honors in English and Environmental Studies from Baylor University and an MFA in Creative Writing, Poetry, from Boston University. He is the author of the chapbook听听(Autumn House, 2020), and his poems, interviews, and reviews appear in听Best New Poets,听New England Review,听Crazyhorse,听LitMag,听32 Poems,听Poetry Daily,听Kenyon Review Online,听Adroit Journal,听Massachusetts Review, and other publications. At CU, McLemore also serves as Technical Editor of the digital humanities platform Romantic Circles. If he鈥檚 not reading, writing, or coding, he鈥檚 probably out there biking, hiking, or skiing.