Sampson Starkweather is the author of The First Four Books of Sampson Starkweather: King of the Forest; La La La; The Waters; Self Help Poems (Birds, LLC), Song of Attention Deficit Disorder (Third Man Books), A Week in Late Capitalism / Ancient Capitalistic Proverbs (Blush Lit) as well as PAIN: The Board Game (Third Man Books) and 10 chapbooks from dangerous small presses, including Until the Joy of Death Hits, pop/love audio-visual GIF poems from Spork Press, Flux Capacitor, an audiobook collaboration with friends from Black Cake Records, Flowers of Rad (Factory Hollow Press), The Heart is Green from So Much Waiting (Immaculate Disciples Press), City of Moths (Rope-A-Dope Press), Human Week (Tungsten Press), Like Clouds Never Render (O’Clock Press), Self Help Poems (Greying Ghost Press), and The Photograph (Horseless Press). He is a founding editor of Birds, LLC, an independent poetry press. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.