About the Author

Derek Furr grew up in rural North Carolina, taught middle school in Charlottesville, Virginia, and now lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife and two sons. He is Associate Professor of Literature in the Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Bard College, where he teaches courses in 19th and 20th century literature and works with aspiring public school teachers. He has published widely in journals of creative writing and is the author of a book of literary criticism, Recorded Poetry and Poetic Reception from Edna Millay to the Circle of Robert Lowell (Palgrave 2010). Besides writing and teaching, he runs, plays gospel piano for a Methodist congregation, and drives his boys to their hockey games all over the frozen northeast.