John Poch (PhD, University of Texas) is President's Excellence Research Professor in the creative writing program at Texas Tech University and the author of six books of poetry and a number of other collaborative works. He has garnered much praise and many awards for his work, including The New Criterion Prize, The Donald Justice Award for Poetry, and a Fulbright Core Scholar Fellowship to the University of Barcelona, where he taught American poetry. His poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry, Paris Review, Yale Review, The Christian Century, and Image.