Martin Arnold teaches in the English Department at Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina. He earned an MFA from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he was the poetry editor of The Greensboro Review, and an MA from New Mexico State University. He is currently the associate poetry editor of storySouth. His poems have been published in Crazyhorse, The Carolina Quarterly, Poetry East, Denver Quarterly, Cimarron Review, Mississippi Review, and elsewhere. This is his first collection.