GARY SCHROEDER is the author of four books of poetry, and is published widely in journals. He and Joseph Hutchison edited A Song for Occupations: Poems About the America Way of Work, which was published with the support of a grant from the The Colorado Council on The Arts and Humanities. He lives on a 50-acre ranch in rural Douglas County, Colorado, near Castlewood Canyon State Park, where he hikes as often as he can.
