about the author

Simeon Berry lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, where he serves on the Board of Directors for Salamander. He has been an Associate Editor for Ploughshares, and he won a Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant. His recent work appears in Hotel Amerika, Western Humanities Review, Gulf Coast, and American Letters & Commentary. In 2013, his manuscript, Ampersand Revisited, was selected by Ariana Reines for The National Poetry Series and is forthcoming from Fence Books.