Tom Hunley is currently an assistant professor in the English department at Western Kentucky University and the director of Steel Toe Books. Some recent poems can be found in current issues of Rattle, American Poetry Journal, Poetry East, and Ordinary Review, with new poems forthcoming in TriQuarterly and Connecticut Review. His last book is My Life as a Minor Character (Pecan Grove Press, 2005), with Teaching Poetry Writing: A Five Canon Approach forthcoming in 2007 (Multilingual Matters LTD.).