Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah is the author of the new hybrid works The Sun of a Solid Torus, Conductor 5, Genus for L Loci, and Handlebody. His individual poems are widely published and have recently appeared in Rigorous, Beautiful Cadaver Project Pittsburgh, The Meadow, Juked, North Dakota Quarterly, Cathexis Northwest Press, The Sandy River Review, Strata Magazine, Atlas Poetica, Modern Haiku, and other places. He is an algebraist and artist and lives in the southern part of Ghana, Spain, and the Turtle Mountains of North Dakota.