JOHN HOPPENTHALER's first book of poetry is Lives Of Water (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2003). His poetry appears in Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, Southern Review, McSweeney's, 5 AM, Pleiades, Barrow Street, and elsewhere; his essays, interviews, and reviews in Arts & Letters, Southeast Review, Chelsea, Bellingham Review, and the Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry. The Poetry Editor of Kestrel, he teaches at East Carolina University in Greensville.
