Ron Smith is the author of Its Ghostly Workshop (forthcoming from LSU Press), Moon Road (also LSU), and Running Again in Hollywood Cemetery (University Presses of Florida). His poems have appeared in The Nation, The Georgia Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review, Shenandoah, Connotation Press, Blackbird, Anglican Theological Review, Ascent, and many other periodicals and anthologies, including Helen Vender’s most recent edition of Poems, Poets, Poetry and The Poets of the Sala Capizucchi (New Orleans & Rimini, 2011). He is Writer-in-Residence at St. Christopher’s School in Richmond, Virginia, where he also teaches occasionally in the Master of Liberal Arts Program at the University of Richmond.