Don LangfordDon Langford was born in Ontario, Canada, grew up in Southern California, and has lived and studied in Oregon and Ohio. He was the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Award and the winner of the first Roger Weaver Poetry Prize at Oregon State Uiversity. He earned a doctorate in English from The Ohio State University after completing his dissertation entitled The Primacy of Place in Gary Snyder's Ecological Vision. His poem "Vivid Dreams, Antarctica" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and he has published poems in several literary magazines. He now spends his time writing poems, hiking, and traveling with his wife, Marlene. Read More Read Less