John Tipton had an itinerant childhood in Indiana, Florida, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Illinois. After a three-year stint in the U.S. Army, he attended the University of Chicago on the GI Bill where he earned an AB in philosophy. He lives in Chicago and is the curator & founder of the Chicago Poetry Project. He is the author of surfaces (Flood Editions, 2004); his translation of Sophocles’ Ajax will be published by Flood in the near future. Home | Season Six