Damien Uriah is a poet, teacher, regenerative farmer, and musician. Their work can be found in Cimarron Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, Thrush, Heron Tree, About Place Journal, and many other publications. Birds I Cannot Name is the title of their book. Damien grew up on the Cherokee Nation side of the Ozark mountains and has lived, written, and worked in various places, including in their second land-love, the Pacific Northwest. Currently a professor of writing at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith, Damien lives with his partner and many plants and animals on a small eco-farm near his childhood home in Northeastern Oklahoma.