Dane Cervine lives in Santa Cruz, California, where he works as a therapist and writer. He graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz with a B.A. in Religious Studies; and the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco with a Masters in Integral Counseling Psychology. Through long association with the Emerald Street Writers and Poetry Santa Cruz, Dane has nurtured, and been nurtured by, a lively literary scene in the Monterey Bay and Greater San Francisco Bay region. Dane's poems have won awards from Adrienne Rich, Tony Hoagland, Atlanta Review, and Caesura, and have been nominated for multiple Pushcarts. His work has appeared in The Sun Magazine, The Hudson Review, Poetry Flash, Catamaran, Miramar, Rattle, Sycamore Review, and Pedestal Magazine, as well as in many anthologies. This is his second book of prose poems with Sixteen Rivers Press.