Justin Cude is one of America's best up-and-coming contemporary writers of poetry and prose. He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, but has since lived around the world in cities including Baton Rouge, San Francisco, New York City and Beijing, China. He published his first collection of poetry and short stories in 2019, 'Another Rushed Morning', when he was twenty-seven. His first published collection of work includes writing full of chaos, trying and awareness. Justin Cude writes realistically about the inherent madness of life and our need to fight for the light just beyond it. His poems and stories deal with writing, death, love and loss, city life and nature, women, the past, the struggle for the present, and our fight for light to see the moment of it all. He has written for online publications such as the DailyStoic.com and is the creator of the CityReadsNYC.com blog. You can follow him on Twitter and Instagram @justcude or subscribe to his writing at JustCude.com or CityReadsNYC.com.