Brendan Lorber is the author of If this is paradise why are we still driving? and several chapbooks, most recently Unfixed Elegy and Other Poems. He’s had work in The American Poetry Review, Brooklyn Rail, Fence, McSweeney’s, canwehaveourballback and elsewhere. Since 1995 he has edited Lungfull! Magazine, currently in hibernation, an annual anthology of contemporary literature that prints the rough draft of contributors’ work in addition to the final version in order to reveal the creative process. He’s also edited The Poetry Project Newsletter and some other things, and ran the Zinc Bar Reading Series for so long. He lives atop the tallest hill in Brooklyn, in a little castle across the street from a five-hundred-acre necropolis where he’s working on a ghost story.