Terry Savoie is a retired teacher, married and living just outside Iowa City. He was educated in Wisconsin and Iowa before serving as a conscientious objector during the Vietnam conflict. After working with adjudicated and at-risk adolescents for two decades, Savoie completed his career teaching both writing and literature in high school and community colleges. The recipient of three National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, he has had poetry and short stories published in more than two hundred literary journals in the past thirty-five years including American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Northwest Review, The Sonora Review, Prairie Schooner, The Iowa Review and North American Review.