Chris Pusateriis a poet, critic, and librarian. Born in the American Midwest during the year of the Watergate burglary, he is the author of ten books of poetry, including Semblance (Dusie, 2013) and Common Time(Steerage, 2012), which was shortlisted for the Colorado Book Award. His work appears widely in literary periodicals and he serves as senior editor for Something on Paper, a multimedia journal of poetics and literary scholarship.