George Bilgere is the author of two previous collections of poetry, The Going (University of Missouri Press) and Big Bang (Copper Beech Press). His poems have appeared in such periodicals and anthologies as Poetry, The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, and The Best American Poetry. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright Commission, the Witter Bynner Foundation, and the Ohio Arts Council, he is a professor of English at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio.