John Olson s the author of eight books of poetry and prose poetry, including Larynx Galaxy; Backscatter: New and Selected Work; The Night I Dropped Shakespeare on the Cat; Oxbow Kazoo; Free Stream Velocity; Echo Regime; Eggs & Mirrors; Logo Lagoon and Swarm of Edges. He has also published three other novels: Souls of Wind (Quale Press), which was shortlisted for a Believer Book of the Year Award in 2008; The Nothing That Is and The Seeing Machine (Quale Press). Some of his articles and essays have appeared in The Stranger and Seattle Weekly. Click here for John's blog.