Doug Anderson, a native of Memphis, Tennessee, served in Vietnam as an infantry medic with the First Marine Division during the Tet Offensive. The Vietnam War became the subject of much of his poetry. After his military service, he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theater Production and an M. A. in Play Writing from the University of Arizona. He has taught writing and literature at Hampshire, Smith, Hofstra, Mount Wachusett, and in 1995 he received a joint appointment to Pitzer College and Claremont Graduate University. In 1981 his play, Short Timers, was produced in New York. He has published a chapbook, Bamboo Bridge (1991), a book of poetry, The Moon Reflected Fire (1994), The Four Way Reader: Anthology (1996), as well as many critical reviews, and screenplays. His poetry has appeared in the Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares, Poet and Critic, the Southern Review, and Peregrine. The Moon Reflected Fire won the Kate Tufts Discover Award for Poetry. Other awards include a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the Emily Balch Prize for best poetry published in The Virginia Quarterly Review in 1993, and the Writers Exchange Award from Poets and Writers.