Author’s Note

Ralph James Savarese is the author or coauthor of three books of prose and four books of poetry, most recently Never Make Them Cry: Classrooms & Coffins. He is also the author, with Tilly Woodward, of Did We Make It?, a chapbook of ekphrastic poems. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Bellingham Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Brevity, Fourth Genre, Galway Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, Mudlark, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry International, Rattle, Salon.com, Seneca Review, Sewanee Review, Southern Poetry Review, Southwest Review, and Threepenny Review. He teaches at Grinnell College and lives in Iowa City, Iowa, and Petoskey, Michigan.

Ralph James Savarese | Luging with Sheila
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