Matthew Cooperman is the author of DaZE (Salt Publishing, 2006), and A Sacrificial Zinc (Pleiades Press, 2001), winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize, as well as three chapbooks, Still: (to be) Perpetual (Dove ] Tail, 2007), Words About James (Phylum Press, 2005), and Surge (Kent State University Press, 1999). A founding editor of Quarter After Eight, Cooperman teaches at Colorado State University, where he is a poetry editor of Colorado Review.