Currently hiding-out in Tucson, Arizona, Jeffrey Alfier serves as co-editor of San Pedro River Review (www.sprreview.com). He has received honorable mention for the Rachel Sherwood Poetry Prize, and won first place awards from the Redrock Writer’s Guild of Utah, and the Arizona State Poetry Society. His poetry has appeared recently in Crab Orchard Review, Georgetown Review, and New Madrid, and he has work forthcoming in Rattle and Rhino. He is author of two chapbooks, Strangers within the Gate (2005), and Offloading the Wounded (forthcoming, 2010).