Greg Williamson grew up in Nashville, Tennessee and has degrees from Vanderbilt University, the University of Wisconsin, and Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of four volumes of poetry: The Hole Story of Kirby the Sneak and Arlo the True, A Most Marvelous Piece of Luck, Errors in the Script, and The Silent Partner. He has received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Whiting Writers' Award, The Nicholas Roerich Prize, an NEA Grant in Poetry, and others. He teaches in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. www.gregwilliamsonbooks.comHis poetry has been published in over 50 periodicals, including The Paris Review, The Yale Review, The New Criterion, The Southwest Review, The Formalist, 32 Poems, Able Muse, Smartish Pace, Sonnets, Unsplendid, Sewanee Theological Review, Crab Orchard Review, and others. His poems have also appeared in several anthologies, including The Norton Anthology of Poetry, The New Young American Poets, Rebel Angels. He is poetry editor for The Sewanee Theological Review and Associate Editor at Waywiser Press.