Robert Lashley ( he/him) was a 2016 Jack Straw Fellow, Artist Trust Fellow, and a nominee for a StrangerG enius Award. His books include Green River Valley (Blue Cactus Press, 2021), Up South Small Doggies Press, 2017), and The Homeboy Songs (Small Doggies Press, 2014). His poetry has appeared in The Seattle Review of Books, NAILED, Poetry Northwest, McSweeney’s, and The Cascadia Review, among others. In 2019, Entropy Magazine named The Homeboy Songs one of the 25 essential books to come out of the Seattle area( he lives in Bellingham) . I Never Dreamed You’d Leave In Summer is his first novel.