John Swain lives in Louisville, Kentucky. He is the author of the following chapbooks: Prominences [Flutter Press], Sinking of the Cloth [Flutter Press], Set Apart Before the World Was Made [Calliope Nerve Media], Burnt Palmistry [Full of Crow], Handing the Cask [erbacce press], Fragments of Calendars [Thunderclap Press], White Vases [Crisis Chronicles Press] and, most recently, Rain and Gravestones [Crisis Chronicles Press].