A longtime resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Blake Lynch now lives in Virginia with his wife, Jessie, and their daughter, Charlie. Lynch is a writer and Wall Street analyst. He holds a BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and a JD from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Hanging the Angels is his debut full-length collection from a literary press. His poems have appeared in Chelsea, The Southampton Review, 2River, King Log, PIF Magazine, and elsewhere. His essays and cultural criticism have been published in Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media and Listverse.