Until recently, SM Stubbs ran a bar in Brooklyn. He is the recipient of a scholarship to Bread Loaf Writers Conference and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets. Winner of the 2019 Poetry Prize from The Freshwater Review, he was also runner-up in both the Atticus Review and Cagibi Poetry Prizes in 2019. His work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, The Normal School, Puerto del Sol, The Pinch, Cherry Tree, Carolina Quarterly, december, Iron Horse Literary Review, and New Ohio Review, among others, with work forthcoming in The Rumpus.