Cullen Whisenhunt is a graduate of Oklahoma City University’s Red Earth Creative Writing MFA program. His work has appeared in Atlas Poetica 40, Ninth Letter, and Dragon Poet Review, among other journals. He has published two chapbooks with Fine Dog Press, Among the Trees and Childish Thing. His debut full-length collection, Until Air Itself Is Tinted, was published by Turning Plow Press and received the 2025 Oklahoma Book Award for Poetry.