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Poet WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE, an Omaha native, was Distinguished University Professor at Northwest Missouri State in Maryville, Missouri, where he was an associate editor of The Laurel Review, one of the Midwest's leading literary journals. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Flickers, O Paradise (1995), and Enter Dark Stranger (1989), all from the University of Arkansas Press and The Complete Book of Kong (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2003). He is also the author of three chapbooks: The Four Seasons (Red Dragonfly P, 2001), The Book of Kong (Iowa State UP, 1986), and The Packing House Cantata (Camber Press, 2006). His most recent collection is Ship of Fool (Red Hen Press, 2011). His poems have appeared in more than twenty anthologies and textbooks, as well as in Bouelvard, Colorado Review, Columbia, Crazyhorse, Gettysburgh Review, The Georgia Review, New Letters, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, Tar River Poetry, and many other places. His awards include an Academy of American Poets Prize, a Bread Loaf Writers' Conference scholarship, and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Ragdale, Yaddo, and The Anderson Center. He lives in Lee's Summit, Missouri, with his wife, Sue.