Gary Gildner has given readings at the 92 St. Y, Manhattan Theatre Club, Library of Congress, Shakespeare & Co. in Paris, and on the ferry crossing Lake Michigan. He's been writer-in-residence at Reed, Davidson, and Randolph colleges, Seattle University, and Michigan State. Among his many books are two memoirs, a novel, four collections of stories and eight of poems. He is the winner of a National Magazine Award, Pushcart prizes, NEA and other fellowships, the William Carlos Williams, Theodore Roethke, and Iowa Poetry awards. He and Michele have traded the Clearwater Mountains of Idaho for the foothills of the Catalina Mountains in Arizona.