W.F. Lantry, a native of San Diego, received his Maîtrise from L’Université de Nice and PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston. In 2010 he won the Lindberg Foundation International Poetry for Peace Prize (in Israel), the Crucible Poetry Prize, the CutBank Patricia Goedicke Prize and the Birmingham-Southern College National Hackney Literary Award in Poetry. His work has appeared in Aesthetica, Prairie Fire and The Wallace Stevens Journal. His chapbook, The Language of Birds, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. He currently works in Washington, DC and is a contributing editor of Umbrella. Visit his website for more information. [Read]