Dennis Barone’s work has appeared in the Chicago Review, The Prose Poem: An International Journal, and Quarter After Eight among others. Barone has edited numerous collections and published several books of fiction, including Temple of the Rat and Echoes. In 1992 he held the Thomas Jefferson Chair, a distinguished lecturing award in the Netherlands. He currently teaches at St. Joseph’s College in Connecticut. Quale Press has published many of his works: Sound/Hammer, Field Report, North Arrow, Precise Machine, Walking Backwards and The Disguise of Events.