Bern Mulvey lived in Japan for seventeen years. His first book, The Fat Sheep Everyone Wants, won the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize, and his second book, Deep Snow Country, won the FIELD Poetry Prize. He has also published two chapbooks, as well as poems in Poetry, Agni, Denver Quarterly, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Missouri Review, Colorado Review, etc. He now lives in Arizona and teaches writing at Eastern Arizona College.
