James Cihlar is the author of The Shadowgraph, Rancho Nostalgia, and Undoing. His poetry chapbooks are A Conversation with My Imaginary Daughter, What My Family Used, and Metaphysical Bailout. His writing has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Threepenny Review, Lambda Literary Review, The Gay and Lesbian Review, Nimrod, Painted Bride Quarterly, and Smartish Pace. He earned his B.A. in English at the University of Iowa, where he studied in the Writer’s Workshop, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.