CRAIG CHALLENDER teaches American literature and creative writing at Longwood College in Farmville, Virginia where he also directs The Longwood College Authors Series. His first full length collection, Familiar Things (Linwood Publishers) has received positive reviews in Prairie Schooner and Northeast; his poems and reviews have recently appeared or are forthcoming in South Dakota Reivew, Connecticut Review, Tar River Poetry, The Midwest Quarterly The Paterson Literary Review, and Chelsea.