Lex Runciman writes poems, a blog (Farcorner Reader), and sometimes book reviews. He used to also write textbooks, usually with Chris Anderson, and he has co-edited two anthologies. For the last 30+ years, he has taught English and creative writing.One Hour That Morning & Other Poems is Lex Runciman's fifth book of poems and his second from Salmon Poetry. Runciman's work has been honored with an Oregon Book Award, the Kenneth O. Hanson Award, and the Silcox Prize. Over the years his work has appeared in such magazines as Ploughshares, Southern Review, Revival, Antaeus, Quarterly West, Hubbub, New England Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Terrain, Cloudbank, and The Gettysburg Review as well as in a number of anthologies, including the Oregon Literature Series volume From Here We Speak and Alive at the Center, 2013, from Ooligan Press. He studied with Madeline DeFrees and Richard Hugo at the University of Montana and with Dave Smith at the University of Utah. For ten years he and his wife ran the small press Arrowood Books. He works at Linfield College where has received the Edith Green Teaching Award. He and his wife, Deborah Berry Runciman, have been married more than forty years.