Todd Davis, winner of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize and the Chautauqua Editors Prize, teaches creative writing, environmental studies, and American literature at Penn State University's Altoona College. He is the author of five books of poetry--Winterkill, In the Kingdom of the Ditch, The Least of These, Some Heaven, and Ripe--and editor of Fast Break to Line Break: Poets on the Art of Basketball and co-editor of Making Poems: 40 Poems with Commentary by the Poets. His poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and have appeared in such journals and magazines as The American Poetry Review, The North American Review, The Iowa Review, Indiana Review, The Gettysburg Review, West Branch, River Styx, Green Mountains Review, and Image. Davis's poetry has been featured by Garrison Keillor on The Writer's Almanac and by Ted Kooser in the syndicated newspaper column, American Life in Poetry. In addition to his creative work, Davis is author or co-editor of six scholarly books, including Kurt Vonnegut's Crusade, or How a Postmodern Harlequin Preached a New Kind of Humanism and Mapping the Ethical Turn: A Reader in Ethics, Culture, and Literary Theory.