Gary J. Whitehead is the author of The Velocity of Dust (Salmon, 2004) and three chapbooks of poetry. His second full-length collection is forthcoming from David Robert Books next fall. He is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, the Pearl Hogrefe Fellowship in Creative Writing at Iowa State University and the PEN Northwest Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency. His poetry appears in Smartish Pace, Issue 15. [bio updated 2008]
