Reginald Shepherd is the author of Some Are Drowning (1995), Angel, Interrupted (1996), Wrong (1999), Otherhood (2003) and Fata Morgana (2007), all published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry (Michigan, 2008) was recently published. His work appears in Smartish Pace, Issue 15. [bio updated 2008]