Sean Hill is the author of Blood Ties & Brown Liquor (UGA Press, 2008). His awards include fellowships from Cave Canem, The MacDowell Colony, the University of Wisconsin, and Stanford University. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous journals, including Callaloo, Ploughshares, DIAGRAM, Tin House, and Poetry, as well as in several anthologies including Black Nature. He lives in Bemidji, Minnesota. More information, as well as poems, can be found at www.seanhillpoetry.com.