B.J. Best is the author of three books of poetry: BUT OUR PRINCESS IS IN ANOTHER CASTLE (Rose Metal Press, 2013), Birds of Wisconsin (New Rivers Press, 2010) and STATE SONNETS (sunnyoutside, 2009). He is also the author of three chapbooks from Centennial Press, most recently the prose poem collection Drag: Twenty Short Poems About Smoking. He teaches at Carroll University and lives in the Wisconsin countryside with one wife, one son, three cats, and nine video game systems. He asserts he is the only person in the history of the world to have beaten Super Mario Bros.--with an actual Nintendo and television--on a pontoon boat.