Michael ChitwoodMichael Chitwood has worked on a construction crew, in a textile mill, and for a highway department; he is also the author of seven volumes of poetry and two books of essays, including three published by Tupelo Press: LIVING WAGES: POEMS (2014), POORMOUTH JUBILEE (2010), and SPILL (2007). Having graduated from the only high school in rural Franklin County, Virginia, he earned a BA in English at Emory & Henry College and went on to work for the University of Virginia Medical Center as a science writer and editor for Helix magazine, meanwhile earning an MFA. For a number of years, he was a science writer and editor at Duke University Medical Center and Research Triangle Institute; he is now a professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Read More Read Less