Christopher Locke is the author of 12 books and chapbooks. His new collection of poetry Music for Ghosts (New York Quarterly Books) and memoir Without Saints (Black Lawrence Press) have been recently released. He received the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Award, and grants in poetry from Fundacion Valparaiso (Spain), the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, and has been nominated for Best of the Net and The Pushcart Prize many times. Chris teaches creative writing at North Country Community College and SUNY Plattsburgh, both in the Adirondacks.