Timothy Michalik was born in Michigan. They received an MFA at New York University. Recent poems have appeared in Annulet, B l u s h, and Luigi Ten Co, among others. They are the author of the chapbook Picaresque (Press Break, 2025) and co-wrote Poems We Wrote with Ian Fishman (Copenhagen, 2024). They live between Chicago and New York, where they edit and publish Copenhagen and Food.