SB STOKES is creative like a starfish has arms. He writes, draws, designs, produces, and edits in Oakland, California.

His first book of poetry, A History of Broken Love Things, was published by Punk Hostage Press in January 2014.

A chapbook of SB's poems, DARK ENTRIES, was also published in October 2014 by Gorilla Press and The Pedestrian Press.

A fourth generation Californian, SB is one of the founding producers of Uptown Oakland's free, annual literary event, Beast Crawl, which will be happening for its fifth year in 2016.

He holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and is both the former poetry and art editor for Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review.

His poems can be found in print and online in/at many quality publications.

He often asks for water, but, so far, has never been given gasoline.