William Ford's first book, The Graveyard Picnic, won the 2001 Writing Award and publication by Mid-America Press (2002). His poems, twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, have appeared in Poetry, The Iowa Review, New Letters, and elsewhere and in two anthologies: Poets on the Landscape (Loess Hills Press, 1996) and The Second Set (Indiana University Press, 1996). He teaches at Kirkwood Community College in eastern Iowa.

About Fugue:
Poets in this issue: John Balaban, Colleen R. Valentine, Catherine Neuhardt-Minor, Cameron Shinn, Marianne Walden, Louis Phillips, Dick Bentley, Rachel Squires Bloom, Bill Cowee, William Ford, Fred Yannantuono, Oliver Rice, Rafael Oses, Nancy Powers, Natasha Marin, Heather Sellers, Brian Doyle