Robert Schultz's books include two collections of poetry, Vein Along the Fault and Winter in Eden; a novel, The Madhouse Nudes; and, most recently, We Were Pirates, a work of nonfiction. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Award in Fiction, Cornell University's Corson Bishop Poetry Prize, and, from The Virginia Quarterly Review, the Emily Clark Balch Prize for Poetry. He has taught at Cornell, the University of Virginia, and Luther College, his alma mater. Since 2004 he has been the John P. Fishwick Professor of English at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. For additional information, visit www.robertschultz.us.