William Taylor Jr. lives in San Francisco with his wife and a cat named Trouble. His work has been widely published in the small press in such publications as Poesy, Anthills, and the New York Quarterly, and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His previous books include So Much Is Burning (sunnyoutside, 2006) and Words for Songs Never Written: New and Collected Poems (Centennial Press, 2007).