David Graham was born and raised in Johnstown, NY, and educated at Dartmouth College and The University of Massachusetts. In addition to his seven collections of poetry and two co-edited anthologies, his essays, reviews, and individual poems have appeared widely, both in print and online. He has been a faculty member several times at The Frost Place in Franconia New Hampshire, where he also served as Poet in Residence in 1996. At the time of his retirement from college teaching in 2016, he was Professor of English & Helen Swift Neilson Professor of Cultural Studies at Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin, where he also directed the Visiting Writers Series for twenty-eight years. Currently he is a contributing editor at the online journal Verse-Virtual (http://www.verse-virtual.com/), where he also writes a monthly column, “Poetic License,” on poets and poetics. He lives in Glens Falls, NY. More details at his website: https://www.davidgrahampoet.com/