Kristopher William Locke is a poet and artist born, raised, and situated in the Canadian prairies with experience in various mediums, including radio, print, web, and stage. Readers are invited to join him on the peaks and valleys that exist within, and despite, the flat prairie landscape of his homeland. His work has been published or forthcomingin Pace Magazine, The Disappointed Housewife, Subterranean Blue Poetry, Visitant, and Nine Muses Poetry, among others. The result is part of his shared collection of internal essays.