John Blair’s work has appeared in literary journals such as Poetry, the New York Quarterly, the Sewanee Review, the Antioch Review, and New Letters. His poetry collection The Green Girls won the 2003 Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize, and his short story collection American Standard was awarded the 2002 Drue-Heinz Literature Prize. Blair is a professor of American literature and directs the undergraduate creative writing program at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas.