NEA Fellow Donald Levering was a Jane Kenyon Award Finalist and Atlanta Review International Poetry Competition prizewinner in 2012. He has been a Guest Poet in the Academy of American Poets online Forum. He has authored ten previous poetry books, including The Number of Names, Sweeping the Skylight, Whose Body, The Kingdom of Ignorance, Horsetail, and Outcroppings from Navajoland. An environmental and human rights activist, he lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.