Charles Freeland, a 2008 recipient of the Individual Excellence Award in Poetry from the Ohio Arts Council, lives and works in Dayton, Ohio. His books and chapbooks include Through the Funeral Mountains on a Burro, Grubb, Chilean Sea Bass is Really Just Patagonian Toothfish, Furiant, Not Polka, Eulalie & Squid, The Case of the Danish King Halfdene, and Where We Saw Them Last.