Chris Janke is a poet, artist, entrepreneur, and business consultant. Now working closely with banks and lenders to help small food businesses, he has a background in art and business and likes to help with both. His art includes  sculptural poems that reflect on the connection between a word and the world, his first book of poems, Structure of the Embryonic Rat Brain, won the Fence Modern Poets Series award and was called a “must read” by the Bloomsbury Review. He co-owns a local pub, The Rendezvous in Turners Falls; also in that town, he hosted a yearly lost-and-found fashion show for a decade. Slope Editions, the non-profit press he has run since 2002, publishes between 1 to 3 titles of innovative poetry each year.