R. Nemo Hill is the author of a novel, Pilgrim's Feather (Quantuck Lane, 2002), a book-length poem based on a story by H.P. Lovecraft, The Strange Music Of Eric Zann (Hippocampus, 2004), three books of poetry from Dos Madres Press, When Men Bow Down (2012), In No Man's Ear (2016), and Magellan's Reveries (2018), as well as a travel memoir, also from Dos Madres, Just In Case It Isn't There: Postcards From Elsewhere (2022). He is also the editor and publisher of EXOT BOOKS. He's lived in New York City, San Francisco, and Portugal, and he's travelled extensively in Southeast Asia-to Bali, Java, Thailand, and Burma. More recently, after living in his family home on Long Island for several years, caring for his aging mother, he moved with his husband to a remote area of the Catskill Mountains where they run a little indigo-dyeing business. He spends the temperate months of each year working in his garden, while the colder months find him indoors at his writing desk. Approaching his seventieth year, he has sworn to clear the decks of scores of unpublished manuscripts, and sail quietly, with a pocketed packet or two of perennial seeds, into darkness.