G.J. Searles teaches English and Latin at Mohawk Valley Community College and has also taught creative writing on Pratt Institute's upstate campus and graduate courses for The New School. The editor of Glimpse, a poetry magazine, he has published 100+ poems in other small quarterlies , along with three volumes of literary criticism from university presses and eight editions of a widely-adopted textbook. He has served on the governing boards of the Moden Language Association and the North East MLA, and as a consultant to both the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and is a former Carnegie Foundation New York State "Professor of the Year."