James Cihlar is the author of Undoing (Little Pear, 2008) and Metaphysical Bailout (Pudding House, 2010). The Books Review Editor for The American Poetry Journal, he has also written reviews for the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Coldfront. He has received a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship for Poetry and a Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner; Cihlar lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. [bio updated 2011]