Lee Herrick is the author of Gardening Secrets of the Dead and This Many Miles from Desire. His poems have appeared in many literary magazines and anthologies, including the Bloomsbury Review, ZYZZYVA, From the Fishouse, The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems from the San Francisco Bay Watershed, Seeds from a Silent Tree: Writing by Korean Adoptees, Highway 99: A Literary Journey Through California’s Great Central Valley (second edition), and One for the Money: The Sentence as Poetic Form, among others. He lives in Fresno, California, and teaches at Fresno City College and in the low-residency MFA Program at Sierra Nevada College.