Philip Pardi has published poems in "Gettysburg Review," "Seneca Review," "Mid-American Review," and elsewhere, and his work has been reprinted in "Best New Poets 2006" and "Is This Forever or What? Poems and Paintings from Texas," A former Michener Fellow at the Michener Center for Writers, he now lives in the Catskill Mountains in New York and teaches at Bard College.