Dainis Hazners lives near Story, Wyoming; for ten years he was co-owner of an independent bookshop in Sheridan. He has been the recipient of an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry and three fellowships from the Wyoming Arts Council. His work has been published in a variety of journals, including the Crab Creek Review, Plains Poetry Journal, Southern Poetry Review, and Connecticut River Review, and in the anthologies Visions of Wyoming, If You Would Love Wyoming, and Deep West: A Wyoming Literary Guide. This is his first book.