He is also the poetry critic for the Seattle Times. His essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in American Literature, Sewanee Review, Midwest Quarterly, Light, and many others. His poems have appeared in, among others, Light, Seattle Review, Atlanta Review, Tampa Review, Neovictorian, Bellowing Ark, and Edge City Review. He lives with his wife and their two daughters in Federal Way, a sprawling suburb wedged between the sprawling cities of Seattle and Tacoma, Washington. He spends much of every