Chip Livingston is the author of a previous poetry collection, Museum of False Starts (Gival Press, 2010), and a chapbook, Alarum (Other Rooms Press, 2007). Individual poems, short stories, and essays have been published in journals including Ploughshares, The Potomac Review, Mississippi Review, Court Green, and NEW AMERICAN WRITING. His work has been included in the anthologies SING: Poetry of the Indigenous Americas, Sovereign Erotics, Best New Poets 2005, Best Gay Poetry 2007, and on the Poetry Foundation's web site. He has received awards from Native Writers' Circle of the Americas, Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers, and the AABB Foundation. Chip has taught writing and literature at University of Colorado, University of the Virgin Islands, Brooklyn College, and Gotham Writers Workshops. He grew up in the Florida panhandle, spent a decade in Manhattan, and now lives in Montevideo, Uruguay.