Dan Gerber has published nine collections of poetry, most recently, Particles: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2017), three novels, two nonfiction books, and a collection of short stories. His work has been honored with the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award, the Midland Author Award, and The Mark Twain Award, and has appeared in The Nation, The New Yorker, Poetry, Partisan Review, and Best American Poetry.  He lives with his wife, Debbie, and their beloved menagerie, domestic and wild, in the mountains of California’s Central Coast.