Floyd Skloot has published four previous books of poems, including Approximately Paradise, winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award, and The Fiddler’s Trance; three novels; and an essay collection. His two memoirs are In the Shadow of Memory, winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award and the Independent Publishers Book Award, and its sequel, A World of Light, named an Editor’s Choice by the New York Times Book Review. He lives in Amity, Oregon. For more information, visit www.floydskloot.com.