Stephen Cramer is the author of Bone Music (Trio House Press, 2016), selected by Kimiko Hahn as the winner of the 2015 Louise Bogan Award for Artistic Merit and Excellence; From the Hip (Wind Ridge Books, 2014); Tongue & Groove (University of Illinois Press, 2007); and Shiva’s Drum (University of Illinois Press, 2004), selected by Grace Schulman for the National Poetry Series. An assistant poetry editor at Green Mountains Review, he teaches writing and literature at the University of Vermont and lives in Burlington, Vermont.