David Trinidad's books include Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems (2011), PEYTON PLACE: A HAIKU SOAP OPERA (2013), both published by Turtle Point Press and NOTES ON A PAST LIFE (BlazeVOX [books], 2015). He is also the editor of A FAST LIFE: THE COLLECTED POEMS OF TIM DLUGOS (Nightboat Books, 2011). Trinidad lives in Chicago, where he is a Professor of Creative Writing/Poetry at Columbia College.