The Patron Saint of Making Curfew

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Tim Staffords work lives in the buffer zone between Chicago and the American Dream far from the suburbs with white picket fences and country clubs but still too far to be of the city proper. Like a carefully curated mixtape, Staffords work navigates the side streets and highways in between, linking those worlds in an effort to create his own.

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Blunt, hilarious, and heartfelt, Tim Stafford's debut collection is a knock-outa sweet, sober, and hard-won lesson on staying authentic.
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, author of Dr. Mutters Marvels

This collection riots with narrative and coming of age in a laugh and music-filled tour of Chicago.
Peter Kahn, author of Little Kings

Tim Staffords poems hit you like a punch in the arm from a best friend, simultaneously violent and funny.
Joaqun Zihuatanejo, author of Arsonist

While I was never a young punk growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, reading Tim Staffords Patron Saint brought many smiles to my face, returning me to the sweetness of the open-heartedness of it all, of what the world can offer us, small as we may have been.
Anis Mojgani, Oregon Poet Laureate

Author Bio

Tim Stafford is a public school teacher, poet, and storyteller from Lyons, IL. He is the editor of the Learn Then Burn anthology series.