Brian Barker
Brian Barker is the author of two other books of poetry, The Animal Gospels and The Black Ocean (SIU Press, 2011). His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry, Diagram, Indiana Review, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, the Washington Post, the Cincinnati Review, Pleiades, and elsewhere. He teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Colorado Denver, where he is a poetry editor for the literary journal Copper Nickel.