Tony has taught at UCCS since 2006. He teaches courses in first-year rhetoric and writing and creative writing. His poems have appeared in Pleiades, Black Warrior Review, and other journals. He has an MFA in poetry writing from the University of Massachusetts and continues his learning to this day, through rich interactions with both his students and also his hallucinations.

• M.F.A. in Poetry, University of Massachusetts-Amherst;
• B.A. in Creative Writing and American Literature, University of Arizona