Douglas Nordfors has a BA from Columbia University (1986) and an MFA in poetry from The University of Virginia (1991). Since 1987, he has published poems in major poetry journals such as The Iowa Review, Quarterly West, Poet Lore, and several others, and many other smaller journals, as well as, more recently, new and upcoming online journals. He has published, with Plain View Press in Austin, Texas, two books of poetry, Auras (2008), and The Fate Motif (2013), and has taught writing and literature at Milton Academy, The University of Virginia, James Madison University, and Germanna Community College.