Jon Thompson teaches twentieth-century/contemporary literature at North Carolina State University. His recent books are The Book of the Floating World, After Paradise and Landscape with Light. In 2016, Shearsman Books will publish his latest collection of poems, Strange Country. He edits the international online journal, Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry & Poetics and the poetry series, Free Verse Editions. More on him can be found at www.jon-thompson.net