Michael Hurley is a senior lecturer in the Dppartment of English at the University of Illinoi Urbana-Champaign. He is originally from Pittsburgh. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The American Poetry Review, The Cincinnati Review, Bennington Review, Sycamore Review, New Delta Review, Five Points, Massachusetts Review, Spillway, Sugar House Review, jubilat, Guernica, Copper Nickel, Mid-American Review, Prairie Schooner, Alaska Quarterly Review, North American Review, FIELD, Crab Orchard Review, Blackbird, Lake Effect, Washington Square Review, Five Points, and elsewhere. His chapbook, Wooden Boys, is available from Seven Kitchens Press.