Bret Shepard grew up ih villages on the North Slope of Alaska. He is the recipient of awards and fellowships from Saint Mary's College, where he completed his MFA, and the University of Nebraska, where he completed his PhD. He now lives in Tacoma, Washington with his wife and two sons. He has taught at the University of Idaho, the University of Puget Sound, and Breen River College, where he currently teaches writing. He is an editor at Dikembe Press, publisher of poetry chapbooks. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Arts & Letters, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, and elsewhere. When not teaching and writing, he spends as much time as possible outdoors in the Pacific Northwest.

Books by Bret Shepard:

Other poems on the web by Bret Shepard:
"A Wave"
"Details of Air"
"The Basement"
Four poems
Three poems
"Parade"
Two poems
"Skin Interims"
"The Funnel"
"Debt"