David BiespielDAVID BIESPIEL is the author of A Long, High Whistle, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award for General Nonfiction. He has also written five books of poetry, most recently Charming Gardeners and The Book of Men and Women, wich was named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Poetry Foundation and received the 2011 Oregon Book Award for Poetry. He writes the Poetry Wire column for The Rumpus. Among his honors are a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and a Lannan Fellowship. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his family. Read More Read Less