Rick Campbell is a poet and essayist living on Alligator Point, Florida. His books include an essay collection, Sometimes the Light (Main Street Rag Press) and poetry collections: Provenance (Blue Horse Press); Gunshot, Peacock, Dog; The History of Steel; Dixmont; Setting the World in Order; and the Traveler's Companion. He’s published poems and essays in journals including The Georgia Review, Fourth River, Kestrel, Prairie Schooner, and the Alabama Literary Review. He teaches in the Sierra Nevada University MFA Program and at Florida A&M University.