John Estes teaches at the University of Missouri and lives with his family in Columbia. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Tin House, West Branch, Ninth Letter, LIT, Ecopoetics, AGNI, Notre Dame Review, and elsewhere. He is the author of two chapbooks: Swerve, which won a 2008 National Chapbook Fellowship from the Poetry Society of America, and Breakfast with Blake at the Laocoön (Finishing Line Press). (updated 8/2009)