Tim Bellows, with a graduate degree from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, teaches writing at Sierra College in Northern California. In November, 1997, his "Huts Under Smooth Hills" was nominated for the 23rd Annual Pushcart Prize. His poetry has appeared in more than 80 journals, and he is working on a collection of poems, Dreams of Long Grasses ~ Poems In and Out of the Body, as well as a volume of essays on poetry and perception, Toolroom for Dreamers.