David Biespiel is a poet, novelist, critic, memoirist, and painter. The author of over ten books, he is a contributor to The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere, and the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, Lannan fellowship, two Oregon Book Awards, and been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Balakian award. He lives in Portland, Oregon.