David Axelrod is the recent recipient of the Kay Deeter Poetry Prize. His essays are collected in Troubled Intimacies, forthcoming from Oregon State University Press. A chapbook of prose poems, Chronicle of the Withering State, is forthcoming as well, from Ice River Press.

About Quarterly West:
Poets in this issue: Marcela Sulak, Admiel Kosman, Dana Mackowiak, Nathan Parker, Stephen Cramer, Joanne Diaz, Mike Dockins, Ted Mathys, Frannie Lindsay, Deborah Bernhardt, Kurt S. Olsson, Donald Platt, Christopher Buckley, David Axelrod