Chad Davidson's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Colorado Review, DoubleTake, The Paris Review, Pequod, and others. He is a recent Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar to Perugia, Italy, and a Ph.D. candidate in creative writing at Binghamton University.

About Elixir:
Poets in this issue: R. T. Smith, Ron McFarland, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Amy Small-McKinney, Tracy Philpot, Adrian Matejka, Sarah Kennedy, Samn Stockwell, David C. Meyer, Mark McKee, Nance Van Winckel, Mark Terrill, Mark Scroggins, John Colburn, Chad Davidson, Simon Perchik, John Isles, Theodore Worozbyt, Kevin Ducey, Jim McGarrah, Sandra Kohler, Elisabeth Murawski, Kate Evans, Jane Satterfield, Alexandra van de Kamp, Michelle Mitchell-Foust, Lorene Delany-Ullman, Moira Muldoon, Rebecca Dunham, Stephen Burt, Sima Rabinowitz, Sara Callaway, Sandra Meek.