The Angel Runs for Office
“the angel spends / his afternoons, ears pressed to the dirt, cataloging their theologies.”
Zachariah Claypole White
Zachariah Claypole White is a Philadelphia-based writer and educator, originally from North Carolina. He holds a BA from Oberlin College and an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, where he was a Jane Cooper Poetry Fellow. His work has appeared in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Prairie Schooner, Strange Horizons, and The Rumpus, among others. Zachariah has received support from the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Writer’s Digest, and Disquiet International. His awards include Flying South‘s poetry prize as well as two nominations for the Best of the Net and one for a Pushcart Prize. Zachariah teaches at the Community College of Philadelphia, Saint Joseph’s University, and the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College. You can find more of his work at zachariahclaypolewhite.com.