Robert Vivian is the author of C__old Snap as Yearning, a collection of essays. His essays, poems, and stories are forthcoming or have appeared in Georgia Review, Harper’s, Massachusetts Review, Mid-American Review, Creative Nonfiction, Glimmer Train, Turnrow, New York Quarterly, and several others. He also writes plays, over twenty of which have been produced in New York City. He currently teaches writing and literature at Alma College in Michigan. (updated 2004)