Mark Liebenow is the author of four books. His poems, essays, and reviews have been published or are forthcoming in such journals as Fifth Wednesday Journal, Colorado Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Crab Orchard Review, Swink, Disquieting Muses Quarterly, and Rain Taxi Review. Four of his poems have been set to music, including one by Lawrence University Jazz Professor Robert Levy. His work has won the Chautauqua and River Teeth nonfiction prizes, the Literal Latte Essay Award, the Sipple Poetry Prize, and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In March 2012 the University of Nebraska Press published his book on Yosemite and John Muir (Mountains of Light: Seasons of Reflection in Yosemite). He also writes about grief recovery. He lives in Peoria, Illinois, and helps out on an organic farm that preserves heirloom corn. www.markliebenow.com