David Blair is the author of three books of poetry, Ascension Days, which was chosen by Thomas Lux for the Del Sol Poetry Prize, Arsonville, a Green Rose Prize Series Book, and Friends with Dogs, which won a Must Read Citation from the Massachusetts Book Prize. He is also the author of Walk Around: Essays on Poetry and Place from MadHat Press. A graduate of Fordham University and the graduate program in creative writing program at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, he lives with his wife and daughter in Somerville, Massachusetts. www.davidblairpoetry.com