Gary L. McDowell's poems have appeared recently in Colorado Review, DIAGRAM, New England Review, Ninth Letter, Poetry Daily, Quarterly West, Salt Hill, and The Southeast Review, and others. He's the author of two chapbooks: They Speak of Fruit (Cooper Dillon, 2009) and The Blueprint (Pudding House, 2005); he's also the co-editor, with F. Daniel Rzicznek, of the forthcoming anthology The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice (Rose Metal Press, 2010). He teaches at Western Michigan University.