Michael Poage was born in Virginia and has lived in

New England, California, Montana and overseas in Latvia

and Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has ten collections of

poems published prior to this new book. He worked various

jobs before becoming ordained in the United Church

of Christ and serving three congregations in Kansas.

He has also taught at Friends University, Wichita State

University, the University of Latvia and Dzemal Bijedic

University in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he

also served as Poet-in-Residence in 2017-18. When not

in Bosnia and Herzegovina, he and his wife, the historian

and writer, Dr. Gretchen Eick, live in Wichita, Kansas.