ROB STURMA used to be called “Ratpack Slim” when he ran around Los Angeles doing performance poetry and slam. When he wasn’t being scored subjectively, he ran the seminal LA open mic Green (from 2003-2007) with superstar selector DJ Jedi and beatboxer Joshua Silverstein and produced a series of webstories for KCET.org called “Children of Slam.” Now they call him Rob Sturma again, especially while promoting his new book of poems, Miles of Hallelujah, on Write Bloody Press. He’s graced stages across the country from the Nuyorican Café to the Ugly Mug in Orange, CA and back again. He's performed with DJ Z-Trip in a packed club, and in a hotel room full of professional wrestlers, the latter which resulted in his poem “Mick Foley” being featured on TNA Wrestling’s website on their “Spin Cycle” segment. He now rests his head on the red dirt of Oklahoma City, where he is the poetry chair for the IAO Gallery, co-curator of The Encyclopedia Show: OKC, co-director of Oklahoma Young Writers' Collective, shooting poetry videos for pop culture website Geekweek.com, forever writing, maintaining the website robsturma.com, and getting more prepared for the impending zombie apocalypse than you are.