About the Author

Christian Barter's first book, The Singers I Prefer (CavanKerry Press, 2005), was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Prize. His poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, The American Scholar, and elsewhere, and it has been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily and Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac. He has received residency fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony and a Hodder Fellowship in Creative Writing at Princeton University. He is an editor at the Beloit Poetry Journal and supervises a trail crew in Bar Harbor, Maine.