Steve Fay has worked in the fields of graphic arts and editing, nature and historical interpretation in public parks, and college-level teaching of writing. His collection of poems, what nature (Northwestern UP, 1998), was cited by the editors and board of the Orion Society as one of their 10 favorite nature and culture related books of the 12-month period in which it appeared. Since the mid-1970s, his poetry has been published in Ascent, Beloit Poetry Journal, Comstock Review, Field, Hamilton Stone Review, Menacing Hedge, Spoon River Poetry Review, and other journals and anthologies. Steve is especially honored by this fifth appearance of his work in TriQuarterly. He lives in Fulton County, Illinois.