Dan Stryk teaches at Virginia Intermont College. He is the author of five collections of poems and prose parables, including The Artist and the Crow (Purdue, 1984). His two new collections, Dimming Radiance (Wind Publications, 2007) and Solace of the Aging Mare (Mid-America, 2007), are forthcoming. His poetry appears in Smartish Pace, Issue 14. [bio updated 2007]