Craig Paulenich is a Professor of English at Kent State University. He is the author of three books of poetry, Drift of the Hunt (Nobodaddies Press, 2006), Blood Will Tell (BlazeVOX [books], 2009), and St. Vitus Dance (Cervena Barva Press, 2012), and editor, (with Kent Johnson) of Beneath A Single Moon: Buddhism and Contemporary American Poetry (Shambhala Press, 1991), a landmark anthology of poems and essays from forty-five American Buddhist poets. His poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, the South Carolina Review, Kansas Quarterly, the Southern Poetry Review, and many others. Paulenich holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Ph.D. in English from Bowling Green State University. He lives in Salem, Ohio.