LANCE LARSEN is the author of three collections of poetry: Backyard Alchemy; (2009), In All Their Animal Brilliance; and Erasable Walls (1998). His poems have appeared in Paris Review, Shenandoah, Hudson Review, Kenyon Review and elsewhereIn 2007 he received the National Endowment for the Arts' highly prestigious Literature Fellowship in Poetry. He teaches in the English Department at Brigham Young University.