Eric G. Wilson is author of Against Happiness, Keep It Fake, Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck, How to Make a Soul, The Mercy of Eternity, My Business Is to Create: Blake's Infinite Writing, and other titles. His work has appeared in The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Georgia Review, The Portland Review, The Oxford American, The Notre Dame Review, Hotel Amerika, Prelude, The Collagist, The Fanzine, Cafe Irreal, The LA Times, The New York Times, The Vestal Review, and elsewhere. A recipient of a National Humanities Fellowship, he teaches Romanticism and creative writing at Wake Forest University.