Adrian Blevins is the author of three previous full-length collections of poetry--Appalachians Run Amok, Live from the Homesick Jamboree, and The Brass Girl Brouhaha--and, with co-editor Karen Salyer McElmurray, Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean, a collection of essays by new and emerging Appalachian writers. She is the recipient of many awards and honors including the Wilder Prize from Two Sylvias Press, a Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and a Rona Jaffe Writer's Foundation Award. She is a professor of English at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, where she directs the Creative Writing Program.