Sean Thomas Dougherty is the author of six books of prose and poetry, including Nightshift Belonging to Lorca (Mammoth Books, 2004). Awards include a 2004 Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, a 2003 Penn State Junior Council for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, and the 2002 Francis Locke Poetry Prize from Bitter Oleander Magazine. He teaches in the BFA program for Creative Writing at Penn State at Erie. (updated 2005)