C. R. Grimmer is Assistant Professor of Poetry Writing at Utah State University, USA, where they advise both graduate and undergraduate students on multimodal poetry projects alongside traditional alphanumeric poetry texts. Grimmer received their Ph.D. in Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Washington (UW, Seattle) and they have taught multimodal composition and multimodal creative writing at Seattle University, the Seattle and Bothell UW campuses, and South Seattle Community College. Their own poems have been featured as audio museum installations, most recently at the Seattle Convention Center’s “Sound Summit” exhibit and the Nora Eccles Heritage Museum of Art. They have presented at numerous conferences on multimodal poetry as social justice intervention, including the Association for Writers and Publishers (AWP) and the Modern Language Association (MLA). Their book of poetry, The Lyme Letters, was completed with a Harlan Hahn Disability Studies Fellowship and was published in 2021.