Gary Short is the author of three volumes of poetry and three chapbooks. His second book, Flying Over Sonny Liston, received the Western States Book Award. He has taught at a number of universities, including Old Dominion University, University of California, Davis, and the University of Mississippi, where he served as director of the MFA program. Among his honors are a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts, a Pushcart Prize, a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford, a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and several residencies at MacDowell and the Virginia Center for the Arts. He lives in Panajachel, Guatemala.