Grant Clauser is the author of several books, including Muddy Dragon on the Road to Heaven. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Greensboro Review, Kenyon Review, and other journals. In 2023 he won the Verse Daily Poem Prize. He lives in Pennsylvania where he works as an editor, camps, hikes, tends his garden, and also teaches poetry at Rosemont College. (Photo by Alex Cope).