Gregory Donovan is the author of the poetry collections Torn from the Sun (Red Hen Press, 2015), and Calling His Children Home, (U. of Missouri Press), winner of the Devins Award, as well as poetry, essays, and fiction published in The Kenyon Review, New England Review, Chautauqua, storySouth, TriQuarterly, diode, The Southern Quarterly, Copper Nickel, Crazyhorse, and elsewhere. Donovan is Senior Editor of the online journal Blackbird and he teaches in the graduate creative writing program at Virginia Commonwealth University.