Nicholas Michael Ravnikar left a full-time lectureship at a state university to repair bathtubs and has since worked as a substance abuse prevention agency success coach, newspaper copy editor and marketing copywriter. Sober since 2011, he lives with mental health conditions, including Borderline Personality Disorder and Bipolar 2 diagnoses. His writing appears in The Georgia Review, Moss Trill, and Exist Otherwise, and you can connect with him and his small press, Paper::Knives, at www.paperknives.art
