Brian Clements is the author of three Quale titles: And How to End It, its sequel, Jargon, and, most recently, A Book of Common Rituals. He edited with Jamey Dunham the anthology An Introduction to the Prose Poem, and he founded/edited Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics. He is Professor of Writing, Linguistics, and Creative Process at Western Connecticut State University, where he coordinates the MFA in Professional Writing and advises the literary journal Poor Yorick.