Mike DeCapite was born in Cleveland, moved to New York in 1987. His first reading was at St. Mark’s Church in 1988, and his first appearance in print was in CUZ magazine, put out by the Poetry Project that year. His published work includes the novel Through the Windshield (1998), the chapbooks Sitting Pretty (1999) and Creamsicle Blue (2012), and the short-prose collection Radiant Fog (2014). His novel Jacket Weather was published by Soft Skull in 2021.