About the Author

Michael Adams grew up in a steel town near Pittsburgh, PA. He has a B.A. in Anthropology and a Master's degree in planning, both from the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of five books of poetry and essays, including Broken Hand Peak (Turkey Buzzard Press, 2008) Underground (Longhand Press, 2007) and Between Heaven and Earth (Elik Press, 2004). Whistleblowers (Turkey Buzzard Press 2009) is his most recent work, like Underground, is a collaboration with the poets James Taylor III and Phil Woods. These three poets perform together as the Free Radical Railroad . Michael is the inner of the 2007 Mark Fischer Poetry Prize, awarded by the Telluride Writers Guild. He now lives in Lafayette, CO with his wife, Claire.