Gary Myers holds an MFA from the Iowa Writer's Workshop and a PhD from the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. His poems have appeared in the United States and Canada in such publications as The New Yorker, Poetry, Kansas Quarterly, Louisville Review, Indiana Review, Crazyhorse, Antigonish Review, and California Quarterly. His chapbook World Effects, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the Stanley Hanks Poetry Award, was sponsored by the St. Louis Poetry Center and published by Nevertheless Press. His second chapbook, Lifetime Possessions, selected by Margaret Holley, won the 6th annual Riverstone Press Poetry Prize, sponsored by Bryn Mawr College. Myers is Professor Emeritus of English and Creative Writing at Mississippi State University where he served as co-founder of the Creative Writing program and later as Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences. He and wife, Connie, live in the mountains of north Georgia.