Brian E. Drake's poems have previously appeared in The Formalist, The Observer, Poetry Break, Plains Poetry Journal, Deviance, Black Bear Review, Starsong, The Classical Outlook, Gas, Dark Alley, Night Mountains, Being, Night Roses, Columbia Review, Frugal Chariot, Our Pagan Times, and Riverside Quarterly, and have received various awards. He is the author of A Night Garden and Other Stories, and the novels A Constant Noise, Under Control, and Don Juan in Paris.