Brian Teare is a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and the author of Companion Grasses, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven. He has also published eight chapbooks, including Paradise Was Typeset, SORE EROS, and Headlands Quadrats. His honors include Lambda Literary and Publishing Triangle Awards, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, the American Antiquarian Society, the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the MacDowell Colony. After over a decade of teaching and writing in the San Francisco Bay Area, and eight years in Philadelphia, he is now an associate professor at University of Virginia, and lives in Charlottesville, where he makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books.