Eliot Schain is the author of Westering Angels and American Romance and has published in American Poetry Review and Ploughshares, and in anthologies including Bear Flag Republic and The Place That Inhabits Us. He has run readings series in Hoboken, NJ; Benicia, CA; and at the John Muir National Historic Site in Martinez, CA. He has also worked as a teacher and psychotherapist and currently lives in Berkeley with his wife, Mary.