BARON WORMSER is the author of seven books of poetry, a memoir, The Road Washes Out in Spring: A Poet's Memoir of Living Off the Grid, (UPNE, 2006, 2008) and has co-authored two books about teaching poetry. He teaches in the Stonecoast MFA program and directs the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching in Franconia, New Hampshire. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. From 2000 to 2005 he served as Poet Laureate of Maine.