SEAN SEXTON was born and raised on his family’s Treasure Hammock Ranch and divides his time between managing a 700-acre cow-calf and seed stock operation, painting, and writing. He is the author of Blood Writing: Poems; May Darkness Restore: Poems; and two chapbooks. Sexton has performed at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada; Miami Book Fair; and the High Road Festival of Poetry and Short Fiction in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2020 and 2021, and received a Florida Individual Artist’s Fellowship in 2001.