JIM MOORE is the author of eight previous books of poetry, one in collaboration with Deborah Keenan. His work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, the Antioch Review, Harper’s, the Kenyon Review, the Nation, the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Sleet, Water~Stone Review, and many other magazines, as well as in two editions of the Pushcart Prize Anthology. The poem “For You” was also reprinted in The Pushcart Book of Poetry. An excerpt of his poem “Love in the Ruins” appeared in New York subways and buses as part of the Poetry Society of America’s Poetry in Motion initiative. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Bush Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, and most recently the Guggenheim Foundation. Moore has taught in various universities and colleges, most recently in the MFA program at Hamline Univesity in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and the Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He and his wife, the photographer JoAnn Verburg, live in Minneapolis and in Spoleto, Italy.