Paul Christensen has published eight collections of poems, most recently The Human Condition (Wings Press) and The Jack of Diamonds Is a Hard Card to Play (Lamar University Press). He has published essays and stories in Southwest Review, The Antioch Review, The Madison Review, AGNI, Sulfur, and other journals. His poems have appeared in many reviews here and abroad. He is a former NEA fellow in poetry and winner of The Antioch Review’s first Distinguished Prose Award. He lives in central Vermont. (updated 2018)