About the Author

DAVID BLAIR'S first book, Ascension Days, was chosen by Thomas Lux for the 2007 Del Sol Poetry Prize, and he is also the author of Friends with Dogs (Sheep Meadow Press, 2016). He has taught at the New England Institute of Art and in the MFA Writing Program at the University of New Hampshire. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts with his wife and daughter, and he has degrees from Fordham University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.