Curtis Hayes

Curtis Hayes has worked in sawmills, greasy spoons, and as a grip, gaffer, and set builder in film production. He’s been a truck driver, a boat rigger, a print journalist and a screenwriter. A Southern California native, he is a graduate of California State University, Long Beach, with a B.A. in Creative Writing. His poetry has been published by Arroyo Seco Press, Picture Show Press, Chiron Review, Trailer Park Quarterly, Cultural Weekly and other small presses.

As a journalist, he is the author of the Top-Ten New York Times Bestseller, I Am Jesse James.

Bottleneck Slide is his first full-length poetry collection.