Andrew Robin is the author of the poetry collections Good Beast (Burnside Review Books), Something has to happen next (Iowa Poetry Prize/University of Iowa Press), Dear Wild Abandon, (Poetry Society of America), and Give Up (Tarpaulin Sky Press), all under his former name, Andrew Michael Roberts. He has worked as an English professor, a music director, a medic, and a cardiac nurse. Andrew is a native of the Pacific Northwest; he lives with his wife Sarah and their beasts Bigfoot, Mookie, and Bird on Lopez Island in Washington State.