Christien Gholson is the author of the novel, A Fish Trapped Inside the Wind (Parthian, 2011) and a book of linked prose poems, ON THE SIDE OF THE CROW (Hanging Loose Press, 2006). He has been many shapes before he attained congenial form: bookseller, union organizer, a black feather in a blue dumpster, farmhand, editor, a fish falling from the sky, and factory worker. He attended both Naropa University and the University of California at Davis. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.