Douglas Haynes

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Douglas Haynes is a nonfiction writer and poet whose work focuses on marginalized people and places. His book, Every Day We Live Is the Future: Surviving in a City of Disasters (University of Texas Press), tells the true stories of two Nicaraguan migrant families’ quests to escape poverty in Managua, one of the world’s most disaster-prone cities. His chapbook of poems, Last Word, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. He also teaches writing and literature at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, where he is an associate professor of English.