Eric Rawson lives Charlottesville, Virginia, and teaches at the University of Virginia. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Rawson has published extensively in the fields of sound studies, modern literature, rhetoric, fiction, and poetry. He is the author of two novels, "Banana Republic" and "Any Better Than This," two poetry collections, "The Hummingbird Hour" and "Expo," and a rhetoric reader, "American Subcultures" (Bedford/St. Martin’s).