Rick Campbell is a poet and essayist living on Alligator Point, Florida. His most recent book is a collection of essays, Sometimes the Light (Main Street Rag Publishing Co.). Poetry collections include: Provenance (Blue Horse Press); Gunshot, Peacock, Dog (Madville Publishing); The History of Steel (All Nations Press); Dixmont (Autumn House Press); Setting the World in Order (Texas Tech University Press); The Traveler's Companion (Black Bay Books); and A Day's Work (State Street Press). His poems and essays have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including The Georgia Review, Fourth River, Kestrel, Alabama Literary Review, and Prairie Schooner. He's won a Pushcart Prize and an NEA Fellowship in Poetry. He teaches in the University of Nevada-Reno's MFA program.