Matthew James Babcock teaches composition, creative writing, and literature and BYU-Idaho in Rexburg. His essays have appeared or will appear in The Fiddleback; Small Print; Aethlon; and War, Literature, and The Arts, with one listed as "notable" in Best American Essays 2012. He is a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Award recipient, an award-winning novellalist at Press 53, and his debut fiction collection will be published by Queen's Ferry Press in October 2016. His literary criticism can be found in The Journal of Ecocriticism and Private Fire: The Ecopoetry and Prose of Robert Francis (University of Delaware Press).