Michael Walsh is an independent scholar, editor, poet and fiction writer. His full-length poetry collections include The Dirt Riddles (University of Arkansas Press) and Creep Love (Autumn House Press). He is also the author of two letterpress chapbooks: Adam Walking the Garden and Sleepwalks (both from Red Dragonfly Press). His short stories about rural gay life have appeared in journals such as Great River Review, North Dakota Quarterly and the anthology Fiction on a Stick (Milkweed Editions). In addition, he's the editor of the poetry anthology Queer Nature, forthcoming from Autumn House Press. He lives in the Driftless region of southwest Wisconsin.