David Hedges has authored eight books, including Petty Frogs on the Potomac (1997), a satirical poke, in rhymed verse, at America's power base; Prospects of Life After Birth: Memoir in Poetry and Prose (2019); The Changer (novel, 2021), and five chapbooks, most recently A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to a Geology Degree (2011). His poems have appeared in Poetry, Poet Lore, Measure, Light Quarterly; Light Online (UK), Able Muse, Trinacria, and others. He lives in Oregon City, Oregon, where his pioneer ancestors settled in the mid-1800s.