Richard Wollman is the author of Evidence of Things Seen (Sheep Meadow Press, 2006) and A Cemetery Affair (Finishing Line Press, 2004). Recipient of the 2005 Gulf Coast Prize in Poetry, his poems appear in New England Review, Crazyhorse, Notre Dame Review, Prairie Schooner and Poetry Daily. He holds a doctorate in English from Columbia University and is Associate Professor of English at Simmons College and Co-Director of the Zora Neale Hurston Literary Center with poet Afaa Michael Weaver. A member of the Powow River Poets, he lives in Newburyport, Massachusetts.