Tony Mancus is very excited to be joining the good folk at Writopia Lab! He is newly transplanted in Rosslyn, VA and he holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Arizona. Tony has been teaching writing in varying capacities for the past six years, most recently at a small preparatory high school in DC and in Florence, Italy. He has taught creative writing and composition at Hunter College, Montclair State University, Queensborough Community College, the University of Scranton, and the University of Arizona. He co-founded Flying Guillotine Press, a press that makes small handbound books, where he helps in the editorial screening and book design process. Tony's poems have appeared in a number of print and online journals and his work received an award from the University of Arizona's Poetry Center.