Dan Beachy-Quick is an associate professor of English at Colorado State University. His most recent poetry collection, Circle’s Apprentice, won the 2012 Colorado Book Award in Poetry and was named a notable book by the Academy of American Poets. He has authored several other books of poetry as well as collections of essays and short fiction, including Work from Memory, Wonderful Investigations, and A Whaler’s Dictionary. Beachy-Quick lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.