Born in Birmingham, Alabama and raised in Illinois, V. P. Loggins is the author of The Wild Severance (Bright Hill Press 2021), The Green Cup (Cider Press Review 2017), The Fourth Paradise (Main Street Rag 2010) and Heaven Changes (Pudding House Chapbook Series 2007). He has also published one critical book on Shakespeare, The Life of Our Design, and is co-author of another, Shakespeare's Deliberate Art. His poems and articles have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including The Baltimore Review, Crannog (Ireland), The Dalhousie Review (Canada), English Journal, The Formalist, The Healing Muse, Memoir (and), Modern Age, Poet Lore, Poetry East, Poetry Ireland Review, Slipstream, The Southern Review and Tampa Review, among other journals. Talking Drums, an art exhibition and installation by sculptor and ceramicist Andrew Cooke, music by Paddy Craig, based on the poetry of V. P. Loggins, appeared in Portaferry, Northern Ireland. He has taught at several institutions, most recently the United States Naval Academy.