Jeff Hardin teaches at Columbia State Community College in Columbia, TN. He is the author of two chapbooks, Deep in the Shallows (GreenTower, 2002) and The Slow Hill Out (Pudding House, 2003). His first full-length collection of poems, Fall Sanctuary, won the 2004 Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize from Story Line Press. His poetry appears in Smartish Pace, Issues 8 and 12.