Rob Carney is the author of four previous books of poems, most recently 88 Maps (Lost Horse Press, 2015), which was named a finalist for the Washington State Book Award, as well as the forthcoming collection The Book of Sharks (Black Lawrence Press). In 2014 he received the Robinson Jeffers/Tor House Foundation Award for Poetry. His work has appeared previously in Cave Wall, Columbia Journal, Sugar House Review, and on Montana Public Radio (http://mtpr.org/post/every-place-ive-ever-lived-gone and http://mtpr.org/post/man-jaunty-golf-cap-wow). He writes a regularly featured series called “Old Roads, New Stories” for Terrain: A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments. Carney is Professor of English at Utah Valley University and lives in Salt Lake City.