Derek Sheffield is the poetry editor of Terrain.org and a professor of English at Wenatchee Valley College. His poems have appeared in the Southern Review, Orion, Poetry, Georgia Review, and several anthologies, including The Ecopoetry Anthology and Environmental and Nature Writing. Winner of the James Hearst Poetry Prize, he has received fellowships from Artist Trust and the Sustainable Arts Foundation. He is the author of the poetry collections A Revised Account of the West, winner of Hazel Lipa Environmental Chapbook Award, and Through the Second Skin, a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. He lives in central Washington.