Charles Goodrich worked for twenty-five years as a professional gardener, and has also worked as a correctional work crew supervisor, a short-order cook, and a carpenter. He is the author of a volume of poems, Insects of South Corvallis, a collection of essays about nature, parenting, and building his own house, The Practice of Home, and the forthcoming, Going to Seed: Dispatches from the Garden. He also co-edited the volume In the Blast Zone: Catastrophe and Renewal on Mount St. Helens. He presently serves as Program Director for the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word at Oregon State University. FMI: www.charlesgoodrich.com