John Bradley is the author of Love-In-Idleness: The Poetry of Roberto Zingarello (Word Works), Terrestrial Music (Curbstone), and War on Words (BlazeVOX). He edited Atomic Ghost: Poets Respond to the Nuclear Age (Coffee House Press), a poetry anthology, Learning to Glow: A Nuclear Reader (University of Arizona Press), and EATING THE PURE LIGHT: HOMAGE TO THOMAS McGRATH (Backwaters Press). He teaches at Northern Illinois University and lives in Dekalb, Illinois, with his wife, Jana, and their cats, Kiki and Zuzu.