David Trinidad is the author of Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems (Turtle Point Press, 2011). Peyton Place: A Haiku Soap Opera is forthcoming from Turtle Point in 2013. He is also editor of A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos (Nightboat Books, 2011). He teaches poetry at Columbia College Chicago, where he co-edits the journal Court Green and is the 2011-2013 Distinguished Faculty Scholar.