STUART DISCHELL is the author of Good Hope Road, Evenings & Avenues, Dig Safe, Backwards Days, Children with Enemies, and The Lookout Man. His poems have appeared in The Alaska Quarterly, The Atlantic, Agni, The New Republic, Slate, Kenyon Review, and Ploughshares. A recipient of awards from the NEA, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, he is a professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.