Patrick Cahill's prose and poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. His poems have twice won the Central Coast Writers Award. A cofounder and editor of Ambush Review, a San Francisco- based literary and arts journal, he was also a contributing editor for the Sonoma County anthology Digging Our Poetic Roots. He received his PhD in History of Consciousness from the University of California, Santa Cruz and wrote a study of Whitman and visual experience in nineteenth-century America. Portions of this work have appeared in The Daguerreian Annual and Left Curve. Patrick lives in San Francisco, where he volunteers with San Francisco Recreation & Parks in habitat restoration.
