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’s seven books of poems include Abandoned Homeland (Bottom Dog, 2015) and Somewhere Near Defiance (Anhinga, 2014), for which he was named Ohio Poet of the Year. His most recent prose book is Songs from an Empty Cage: Poetry, Mystery, Anabaptism, and Peace (Cascadia, 2013). New essays and poems appear in Georgia Review; The Sun; Kenyon Review; Christian Century; Image; Forklift, Ohio; and Artful Dodge. He teaches at Bluffton University in Ohio and spent mutltiple sabbaticals at LCC International University in Klaipeda, Lithuania.