Fred Dale is a husband to his wife, Valerie, a father to my good dog, Miss Trixie, and a faculty member in the Department of English at the University of North Florida. He holds an MFA from the University of Tampa, but mostly, he just grade papers. His work has appeared in Spillway, Sugar House Review, Salt Hill Journal, The Summerset Review, Tipton Poetry Journal, and others. He has published two audio chapbooks: The Dream of Blue Moon Flowers and A Boy's Pirating Eye. Three of his poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.