About the Author

Gary Margolis is emeritus executive director of College Mental Health Services and associate professor of English and American Literatures at Middlebury College. He was a Robert Frost and Arthur Vining Davis Fellow and taught at the University of Tennessee, Vermont, Bread Loaf, and Green Mountain Writers’ conferences. His books Fire in the Orchard and Raking the Winter Leaves: New and Selected Poems were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. He is also the author of the memoir Seeing the Songs: A Poet’s Journey to the Shamans in Ecuador, and the poetry collections Runner Without a Number and Time Inside.