Mike White grew up in Montreal, and lived in Canada until 2001. With a Bachelor's degree from The University of Toronto and a Masters from McGill University, he headed south to the University of Utah's doctoral program in Literature and Creative Writing. He served as the poetry editor and editor- in-chief of Quarterly West and teaches literature and creative writing courses at the University of Utah. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Republic, The Threepenny Review, The Iowa Review, The Antioch Review, FIELD, Witness, and many others. Work has also been featured online at Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. He maintains ties with the Canadian literary scene, with poems in Canadian journals such as The Malahat Review, The Dalhousie Review, and The Fiddlehead. HOW TO MAKE A BIRD WITH TWO HANDS is his first book.