Christopher Sindt is an assistant professor of English and director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College of California. He is the author of the chapbook The Land of Give and Take, and his poetry has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Nebraska Review, Nocturnes, Swerve and several other literary journals. He serves on the Board of the Directors of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and the Advisory Board of San Francisco WritersCorps. He has received several awards, including the James D. Phelan Award and residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Blue Mountain Center. From 1992–1999, he was the Program Director of the Art of the Wild Writing Conference.