After attending Middlebury College, Rolly Kent received an MFA from the University of Arizona. For many years he taught poetry around the Southwest and on many tribal lands. He ran one of the first public library-based community writers projects, bringing poets and writers to prisons, nursing homes, women's shelters, and branch libraries in Tucson. His work has appeared in numerous magazines, including the American Poetry Review, Atlantic, Nation, and Poetry. He is the author of The Wreck in Post Office Canyon and Spirit, Hurry. He lives in Los Angeles.