Sean Hill is the author of Blood Ties & Brown Liquor (UGA Press, 2008). His awards include fellowships and grants from Cave Canem, the Bush Foundation, The MacDowell Colony, the University of Wisconsin, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Jerome Foundation, and a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. His poems have appeared in Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, DIAGRAM, the Oxford American, Ploughshares, Poetry, Tin House, and numerous other journals, and in several anthologies including Black Nature and Villanelles. His second collection of poetry, Dangerous Goods, is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in 2014. More information can be found at www.seanhill.org [2].