RYAN VINE is the author of To Keep Him Hidden, winner of the Northeastern Minnesota Book Award, and the Weldon Kees Award-winning chapbook Distant Engines. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Blackbird, The Rumpus, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and on National Public Radio. His honors include the Greensboro Review's Robert Watson Poetry Prize, three McKnight/ARAC Career Development Grants, an Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in Poetry from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and he has been a finalist or nominee for numerous others, including--selected by Robert Pinsky--the Dorset Prize. He is professor of English at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, MN.