About the Author

Albert Garcia is the author of two previously published books of poems, Rainshadow (Copper Beech Press) and Skunk Talk (Bear Star Press). He has also published Digging In: Literature for Developing Writers (Prentice Hall). His individual poems have been published in North American Review, Mid-American Review, Poetry East, Willow Springs, Southern Poetry Review, Yankee, and many other journals while also being featured in Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry and Garrison Keillor's A Writer's Almanac. Albert taught community college English for eighteen years, and for the last ten years has served as a dean at Sacramento City College. He lives with his wife and family in Wilton, California, a rural area outside of Sacramento, where he grows most varieties of fruit trees that thrive in the region and several that don't.