Steven Nightingale is the author of two novels and six books of sonnets, as well as numerous essays. Most recently, his book Granada: Pomegranate in the Hand of God, a book about the city of Granada, Spain, was published by Counterpoint Press. Nightingale’s poetry has been widely anthologized, and he has taught poetry in more than fifty schools and universities. His interests include the medieval art of Spain and Italy, the wild country of the American West and the Caribbean, cooking for his treasured wife and daughter, astronomy, venture capital, the quantitative arts, and Emily Dickinson, whom he loves. He lives in Woodside, CA, with his family.