Yale University graduate Michael Scofield was with Sunset Magazine until, with his wife, he launched a firm to write marketing documents for Silicon Valley companies. In 2002 he received his low-residency MFA in Writing from Vermont College. Sunstone Press has published Whirling Backward into the World, his second book of poems, as well as his Santa Fe trilogy which consists of Acting Badly, Making Crazy, and Smut Busters.