Jeff GundyJeff Gundy grew up on a farm in central Illinois and studied at Goshen College and Indiana University, where he earned his Ph.D. He is Distinguished Poet in Residence at Bluffton University. His eight books of poems include Without a Plea and Abandond Homeland (both from Bottom Dog, 2019 and 2015), Somewhere Near Defiance (Anhinga, 2014), for which he was named Ohio Poet of the Year, and Spoken among the Trees (Akron, 2007), winner of the Society of Midland Authors Poetry Prize. Earlier prose books include Songs from an Empty Cage (Cascadia, 2013), Walker in the Fog: On Mennonite Writing (Cascadia, 2005), winner of the Dale E Brown Award, and A Community of Memory: My Days with George and Clara (Illinois, 1996). Recent poems and essays are in Georgia Review, The Sun, Kenyon Review, Forklift, Ohio, Christian Century, Image, Cincinnati Review, Terrain, and other journals. A 2008 Fulbright lecturer at the University of Salzburg, he taught regularly at the Antioch Writers Workshop and Language of Nature workshops in Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Lynn Powell writes, "Impish, probing, and expansive, Gundy's poems reward the mind and replenish the spirit." Of Wind Farm, Scott Russell Sanders says "[Gundy] carried along from his rural upbringing riches of imagination that are abundantly displayed in these pages." His web page is https: //jeffgundy.com/ Read More Read Less