I’m basically the Red Mage of the literary world. I’ve been fortunate enough to publish five poetry books, five poetry chapbooks, and two epic fantasy trilogies. I’ve also published poems and short stories in an eclectic variety of journals including Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Rattle, Hayden’s Ferry, Analog, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Gargoyle, Brevity, and Ploughshares. For about eight years now, I’ve been the Poetry Editor of Atticus Review. I’ve also been a teacher for about seventeen years, teaching a range of courses from Advanced Poetry Writing to Composition and an Honors course on Zen Literature, and have often volunteered for AWP’s mentorship program. Some people have rather generously described me as a decent and likeable human being.